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Your guide: Sir FarazBelieves a good tashreeh is half understanding, half good handwriting.
Think quietly: what makes one person, among everyone in the world, without equal? Keep the question in mind as you read the last couplet.
Read the Naat on p. 7 of your book first. Here is the poet, what the book says about his Naat, and the book's own explanation of the last couplet.
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan (1873–1956) was born at Kot Mehrath, a small village near Karamabad, a few kilometres from Wazirabad.
His father, Chaudhry Sirajuddin Ahmad, was a postmaster. He studied at Mission High School Wazirabad, passed matric from Government High School Patiala, and graduated from Aligarh College.
He worked in the postal department of Jammu and Kashmir, then in Hyderabad (Deccan). Back in Karamabad he started the newspaper Zamindar, and later moved it to Lahore.
Zamindar soon became famous everywhere, and people gave him the title Baba-e-Sahafat.
The book calls him a master poet, a fiery speaker, a writer with his own style, a fearless journalist, a fine translator and a brave politician.
The book: a good Naat is written only by a poet whose heart is full of love for Rasool-e-Kareem ﷺ. His Naat joins sincerity, devotion, fresh thought and power of expression.
The Naat is from Baharistan. Every couplet ends with the same words, tumhein to ho. It opens:
دل جس سے زندہ ہے وہ تمنا تمھیںؐ تو ہو (ص 7، شعر 1)
دنیا میں رحمتِ دو جہاںؐ اور کون ہے
جس کی نہیں نظیر وہ تنہا تمھیںؐ تو ہو
The book: the poet addresses Rasool-e-Akram ﷺ, the cause of mercy for both worlds, this world and the hereafter. Allah Ta'ala says in the Quran:
وَمَآ اَرْسَلْنٰكَ اِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعٰلَمِیْنَ
ترجمہ: اور ہم نے نہیں بھیجا آپ کو مگر تمام جہانوں کے لیے رحمت (بنا کر)
The book continues: there is no example or equal of him ﷺ in the world. Allah Ta'ala sent him ﷺ as a mercy not for this world alone, but for both this world and the hereafter.
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Think quietly: what makes one person, among everyone in the world, without equal? Keep the question in mind as you read the last couplet.
Read the Naat on p. 7 of your book first. Here is the poet, what the book says about his Naat, and the book's own explanation of the last couplet.
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan (1873–1956) was born at Kot Mehrath, a small village near Karamabad, a few kilometres from Wazirabad.
His father, Chaudhry Sirajuddin Ahmad, was a postmaster. He studied at Mission High School Wazirabad, passed matric from Government High School Patiala, and graduated from Aligarh College.
He worked in the postal department of Jammu and Kashmir, then in Hyderabad (Deccan). Back in Karamabad he started the newspaper Zamindar, and later moved it to Lahore.
Zamindar soon became famous everywhere, and people gave him the title Baba-e-Sahafat.
The book calls him a master poet, a fiery speaker, a writer with his own style, a fearless journalist, a fine translator and a brave politician.
The book: a good Naat is written only by a poet whose heart is full of love for Rasool-e-Kareem ﷺ. His Naat joins sincerity, devotion, fresh thought and power of expression.
The Naat is from Baharistan. Every couplet ends with the same words, tumhein to ho. It opens:
دل جس سے زندہ ہے وہ تمنا تمھیںؐ تو ہو (ص 7، شعر 1)
دنیا میں رحمتِ دو جہاںؐ اور کون ہے
جس کی نہیں نظیر وہ تنہا تمھیںؐ تو ہو
The book: the poet addresses Rasool-e-Akram ﷺ, the cause of mercy for both worlds, this world and the hereafter. Allah Ta'ala says in the Quran:
وَمَآ اَرْسَلْنٰكَ اِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعٰلَمِیْنَ
ترجمہ: اور ہم نے نہیں بھیجا آپ کو مگر تمام جہانوں کے لیے رحمت (بنا کر)
The book continues: there is no example or equal of him ﷺ in the world. Allah Ta'ala sent him ﷺ as a mercy not for this world alone, but for both this world and the hereafter.
The book's model explanation has a fixed order: the couplet, the poet's name, the poem's title, then the explanation in the book's own words, with the verse quoted exactly.
Q1. Exercise 2 (e) (p. 8): According to the poet, who is the one whose equal is not found?
Rasool-e-Akram ﷺ: the book says there is no example or equal of him ﷺ in the world.
Q2. Exercise 2 (b) (p. 8): According to the poet, for whom was everything in this universe created?
For Rasool-e-Akram ﷺ: the Naat says everything was created for him.
Q3. Exercise 4 (p. 9): Mark the qafiya and the radif in the Naat.
Radif: tumhein to ho. Qafiya: tamanna, duniya, ujaala, oola, shanaasa, Batha, tanha.
✗ Calling tumhein to ho the qafiya because it comes at the end.
✓ Words repeated unchanged after the qafiya are the radif. The qafiya is the rhyming word before it.
✗ Writing the verse or its translation from memory in new words.
✓ Copy the Arabic and the translation exactly as printed on p. 10.
✗ Writing the names in an answer without the honorifics the book uses.
✓ Follow the book: Rasool-e-Akram ﷺ, Hazrat Jibril ؑ, Allah Ta'ala.
1. دل جس سے زندہ ہے وہ ______ تمھیںؐ تو ہو
(b) Couplet 1 (p. 7): the longing by which the heart lives.
2. سب غایتوں کی ______ تمھیںؐ تو ہو
(c) Couplet 3 (p. 7): ghayat-e-oola, the first purpose of all purposes.
3. جلتے ہیں ______ کے پر جس مقام پر
(d) Couplet 4 (p. 7) names Hazrat Jibril ؑ. Exercise 2 (c) links this line to the event of Meraj.
4. اس ______ کا اُجالا تمھیںؐ تو ہو
(a) Couplet 2 (p. 7): the light of noor-e-awwaleen. Shab-e-taar-e-alast is in the line before it.
5. دنیا میں ______ اور کون ہے
(b) The last couplet (p. 7), which the book explains on pp. 9–10.
6. What is the sign of a misra? (p. 8)
(c) Book p. 8: the sign of a misra is the letter ain. The sign of a sher is different (p. 9).
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