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The Urdu 11 book opens with a Hamd. It asks one question again and again: whose is all this?
First the poet, then the aims and form.
The poet, the aims, the form.
Hafeez Taib's real name was Abdul Hafeez Minhas. He lived from 1931 to 2004.
His family home was Ahmad Nagar, a town in Wazirabad tehsil. His father, Haji Chirag Din Minhas, was a teacher, an imam and a khatib.
He learnt Arabic and Persian from his father. He passed matric from Zamindar High School, Gujrat, in 1947.
He left pre-engineering at Zamindar College because he loved poetry. Later he completed Urdu Fazil and an M.A. in Punjabi while working.
He worked in the electricity department and in WAPDA. Then he joined the Punjabi Department of Punjab University as a part-time teacher.
He wrote Hamd, Naat and Munajat in Urdu and in Punjabi. He published 11 poetry books. His collected works are named Kainaat-e-Hafeez Taib.
The Government of Pakistan gave him the Tamgha-e-Husn-e-Karkardagi (Pride of Performance) in 1994. A road in Lahore is named after him.
The book gives four aims. They are to know Allah's being and attributes through the Hamd, and to learn the teaching of the Quran and Sunnah.
The other two aims are to value character building, moral rules and good deeds, and to grow the feeling of Islamic unity and love.
The poem has seven couplets. Each couplet asks a question about who owns the order, the majesty and the beauty seen around us.
The book calls this Hamd high quality. The repeated words are its glory. The refrain at the end of the second line is Al-Haq, Al-Haq (the Truth).
The last couplet has the poet's pen name, Taib. So it is the maqta.
Classroom activity in the book: read one verse each with correct pronunciation, and comment on the signs of Allah's power in the verses.
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The Urdu 11 book opens with a Hamd. It asks one question again and again: whose is all this?
First the poet, then the aims and form.
The poet, the aims, the form.
Hafeez Taib's real name was Abdul Hafeez Minhas. He lived from 1931 to 2004.
His family home was Ahmad Nagar, a town in Wazirabad tehsil. His father, Haji Chirag Din Minhas, was a teacher, an imam and a khatib.
He learnt Arabic and Persian from his father. He passed matric from Zamindar High School, Gujrat, in 1947.
He left pre-engineering at Zamindar College because he loved poetry. Later he completed Urdu Fazil and an M.A. in Punjabi while working.
He worked in the electricity department and in WAPDA. Then he joined the Punjabi Department of Punjab University as a part-time teacher.
He wrote Hamd, Naat and Munajat in Urdu and in Punjabi. He published 11 poetry books. His collected works are named Kainaat-e-Hafeez Taib.
The Government of Pakistan gave him the Tamgha-e-Husn-e-Karkardagi (Pride of Performance) in 1994. A road in Lahore is named after him.
The book gives four aims. They are to know Allah's being and attributes through the Hamd, and to learn the teaching of the Quran and Sunnah.
The other two aims are to value character building, moral rules and good deeds, and to grow the feeling of Islamic unity and love.
The poem has seven couplets. Each couplet asks a question about who owns the order, the majesty and the beauty seen around us.
The book calls this Hamd high quality. The repeated words are its glory. The refrain at the end of the second line is Al-Haq, Al-Haq (the Truth).
The last couplet has the poet's pen name, Taib. So it is the maqta.
Classroom activity in the book: read one verse each with correct pronunciation, and comment on the signs of Allah's power in the verses.
Q1. Short question (a): what are the basic themes of Hafeez Taib's poetry?
From the profile: he is famous for Hamd and Naat, so praise of Allah and love for the Prophet are the main themes. (The book's own list of themes was not seen, so a teacher should confirm.)
Q2. Short question (b): which forms of poetry made him famous?
Hamd and Naat. The profile also says he wrote Munajat. He wrote in Urdu and in Punjabi.
✗ “Hafeez Taib worked only as a poet.”
✓ He also worked in the electricity department and WAPDA, and then taught at Punjab University.
1. Book exercise MCQ 1: what guides us?
(a) The first couplet: whose order guides us.
2. Book MCQ 2: what is clear in the mountains?
(a) The second couplet speaks of the majesty and the beauty. The exercise asks for majesty.
3. Book MCQ 4: who are marked by the love of Allah?
(a) The sixth couplet: the people of love are marked.
4. Book MCQ 5: the reason for the fiery voice is:
(a) The last couplet: in separation the voice is fiery.
5. Book MCQ 3: what is inscribed from horizon to horizon?
(a) The fifth couplet and short question (c) use the phrase harf-e-wafa.
6. Which poem confesses sins and prays in a touching way? (Book p. 4)
(a) Book p. 4: Munajat has prayers with a confession of sins.
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