KARACHI: Poets who compose naat try to express their love and admiration for the Holy Prophet (pbuh). However, they should make sure that the verses they write in naat have literary standards. Poet ...

NAAT poetry in Urdu has a long history, but, surprisingly, it was not until the latter half of the 20th century that serious critical and research works on it began appearing. It does not follow that ...

Hamd is a poetic genre that exclusively praises Allah. The word hamd comes from Arabic root ‘h,m,d’ and it literally means to praise. The Arabic word Muhammad is also derived from the same root and ...

When renowned naat khawan Owais Raza Qadri recites ‘Samaa Hai Noor Ka nikla chand,’ one will undeniably stand up in veneration to the last messenger of Allah, the Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (PBUH). Such ...

This past week, the Islam Gymkhana at Marine Lines hosted a unique event. A group of non-Muslim poets were invited to recite naat or panegyric poems about Prophet Muhammad. As part of ‘Prophet for All ...