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Your guide: Sir FarazBelieves a good tashreeh is half understanding, half good handwriting.
A Hamd opens the Urdu book. It is one poem, eight couplets, and one repeated call.
Let us meet the poet and see how the poem is built.
The poet, the form, the ideas.
The Hamd is by Syed Sabihuddin Sabih Rehmani. He was born in June 1965 in Karachi.
His family came from the Saadat family of Hyderabad Deccan.
He edits the research journal on Naat literature named Naat Rang. He founded the Naat Research Centre. He is president of Idara Yaadgar-e-Ghalib.
He began reciting Naat in 1973, in primary school. The Government of Pakistan gave him the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.
His collected poetry is named Kulliyat-e-Sabih Rehmani. His Naat books Jada-e-Rehmat and Sarkar ke Qadmon Mein have English translations.
A Hamd is a poem in praise of Allah. The book's first aim is to explain the meaning of Hamd as a form and its features.
The central idea is the greatness and majesty of Allah.
The poem also lets the reader feel the spiritual atmosphere of the Kaaba and the Haram.
The other aims in the book: respect for religious and moral values, and giving a critical opinion on the ideas and beauty of the Hamd.
Every verse ends with the same words: Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. This repeated ending is called the radeef.
There are eight couplets. In the last couplet the poet uses his pen name, Sabih. This last couplet is the maqta.
The poet speaks as a pilgrim. He talks of the Kaaba, the call to prayer, tears and a prayer for forgiveness.
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A Hamd opens the Urdu book. It is one poem, eight couplets, and one repeated call.
Let us meet the poet and see how the poem is built.
The poet, the form, the ideas.
The Hamd is by Syed Sabihuddin Sabih Rehmani. He was born in June 1965 in Karachi.
His family came from the Saadat family of Hyderabad Deccan.
He edits the research journal on Naat literature named Naat Rang. He founded the Naat Research Centre. He is president of Idara Yaadgar-e-Ghalib.
He began reciting Naat in 1973, in primary school. The Government of Pakistan gave him the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.
His collected poetry is named Kulliyat-e-Sabih Rehmani. His Naat books Jada-e-Rehmat and Sarkar ke Qadmon Mein have English translations.
A Hamd is a poem in praise of Allah. The book's first aim is to explain the meaning of Hamd as a form and its features.
The central idea is the greatness and majesty of Allah.
The poem also lets the reader feel the spiritual atmosphere of the Kaaba and the Haram.
The other aims in the book: respect for religious and moral values, and giving a critical opinion on the ideas and beauty of the Hamd.
Every verse ends with the same words: Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. This repeated ending is called the radeef.
There are eight couplets. In the last couplet the poet uses his pen name, Sabih. This last couplet is the maqta.
The poet speaks as a pilgrim. He talks of the Kaaba, the call to prayer, tears and a prayer for forgiveness.
Q1. Short question (e): what wish does the poet express in the last couplet?
The poet says he wants only forgiveness. He asks Allah to show kindness to the one who seeks pardon. (From the last couplet.)
Q2. Book short question (b): what was the poet's state when he remembered his faults?
His prayers began to melt into tears. He wept while holding the cover of the Kaaba. (Book p. 4, fourth couplet.)
Q3. Book short question (d): what prayer did the poet make after drinking Zamzam?
He prayed that he would not fear thirst on the Day of Gathering. He asked the Saqi of Kausar to be kind to him. (Book p. 4, sixth couplet.)
✗ “Every couplet has a different refrain.”
✓ No. Every verse ends with Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
✗ “The maqta is the first couplet.”
✓ The maqta is the last couplet, the one with the pen name.
1. Book exercise MCQ (a): the sound that keeps coming is:
(a) The second couplet says one call keeps coming: Allahu Akbar.
2. Book MCQ (b): the prayers begin to melt into:
(a) The fourth couplet: when the faults come to mind, the prayers turn into tears.
3. Book MCQ (d): what pours honey into the ears?
(a) The second couplet: the azans pour honey into the ears.
4. Book MCQ (e): Mustafa himself kissed you, O ___:
(a) The fifth couplet: Mustafa kissed the Black Stone.
5. Book MCQ (c): the poet seeks ___ from Allah.
(a) The last couplet: he wants only maghfirat. Teacher to confirm the book key.
6. Verse completion (3b): when the faults come to mind, ___ begin to melt into tears? Fill the blank: ___ mein dhalne lagin iltijaein.
(a) Book exercise 3(b): the blank is ashkon.
7. Verse completion (3d): 'Rab se dua ki ___ ko pi kar'. The blank is:
(a) Book exercise 3(d): the blank is Zamzam.
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