Zara Madani recites naats at IBA Karachi’s poetry session to honour Ramazan

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Zara Madani recites naats at IBA Karachi’s poetry session to honour Ramazan

Zara Madani recites naats at IBA Karachi’s poetry session to honour Ramazan
Karachi:(Staff Reporter )The Department of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, School of Economics and
Social Sciences (SESS), Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi, organised a session titled
‘Muslim Devotional Poetry of South Asia’, at the IBA Main Campus. Paying tribute to the holy
month of Ramzan, the event featured recitation of naats written in Urdu, Persian, Sindhi, and Punjabi.
The IBA faculty and students recited devotional verses of renowned Sindhi poet Maulvi Ahmad
Mallah and famous Urdu and Persian poets including Mir Taqi Mir and Mirza Asadullah Khan
Ghalib.
The highlight of the event was a special guest appearance by naat-khwaan Zara Madani, who is wellknown for her regular singing appearances in Coke Studio Pakistan and the film ‘Khuda Ke Liye’.
The audience was moved to hear Ms Madani’s qirat of Surah Rahman and appreciated her hauntingly
beautiful original compositions and recitation of the famous Urdu devotional verses, ‘Lauh Bhi Tu
Qalam Bhi Tu’ and ‘Taazim Se Leta Hai Khuda Naam-i Muhammad’ by Allama Muhammad Iqbal
and Khwaja Muhammad Akbar Warsi respectively, and Punjabi verses ‘Main Lajpaalaan De Lar
Lagiyaan’ by Abd us-Sattar Niyazi.
Some other Urdu poets whose naatiyah verses were recited at the event include ‘Nushur’ Wahidi,
Kunwar Mahendra Singh Bedi ‘Sahar’, and Najmunnisa Munawwar Ali Bukhari ‘Najm’. IBA
students Hamraj Singh, Muhammad Ahmad, and Syed Ghazi Haider Zaidi also recited naats in
Sindhi, Arabic, Persian, Braj Bhasha, and Urdu.
Keeping with the spirit of honouring original contributions to the field of devotional poetry in praise
of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Lecturer SESS, IBA and poet, Syed Muhammad Baqar Mehdi Rizvi,
who teaches Urdu Literature and Psychology, presented examples of his own naatiyah shaairi. His
work was acclaimed by the audience, as well as by Ms. Madani, who then took the stage and
expressed appreciation for Mr. Rizvi and his fine contributions to the field of Urdu poetry as a young
poet in Karachi. Adding to the creative spirit of the evening, Lecturer SESS, IBA and literary
translator, Ms. Zahra Sabri, who had organised the event, presented her own English translation and
recital of Ghalib’s famous Persian naat ‘Haq Jalwah-gar zi Tarz-i Bayan-i Muhammad Ast’ and
commented on how the devotional poetry of literary giants like Ghalib and Mir is often overlooked by
enthusiasts who tend to be familiar only with their mainstream ghazals.
Ms. Sabri, who teaches Indo-Islamic History and Urdu Literature at IBA, also discussed the
importance of Muslim women poets in the domain of South Asian devotional poetry. She spoke about
how the long-standing tradition of women’s milads inside private homes has historically offered a
training ground for the recital and appreciation of devotional poetry, and how naats and hamds penned

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