Najm Afandi

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Najm Afandi
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Born	Mirza Tajammul Hussain 1893[citation needed] Agra, India[citation needed]
Died	1975 (82 years)[citation needed] Karachi, Pakistan[citation needed]
Resting place	Sakhi Hassan-GraveYard
Religion	Islam
Nationality	Indian, Pakistani
Ethnicity	Indian
Main interest(s)	Religious Poetry (Marsiya, Noha)
Notable work(s)	Noha: 'Aey Waey Nahre Alqama' 'Raaj dulara Zehra ka' Books: Kainat-e-Najm, Khosha e Anjum, Huan Najm, Rubaiyat Najam Afandi
Occupation	Poet, writer
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Najm Afandi (1893–1975) نجم آفندی was an Urdu poet in India.

Life[]

Najm Afandi was born in Agra, India in 1893. His father Bazm Afandi was also a poet.^[1]

He moved to Hyderabad, Deccan.^{[citation needed]} He started writing poetry early in his life and continued for 65 years.^{[citation needed]}

His nazm durr-e-yateem was popular, which he wrote while he was only 15 or 16 years of age.^{[citation needed]} He experimented with various genres of Urdu poetry.^{[citation needed]} Najm had in the later part of his life dedicated himself to writing marsiya, salaam, manqabat and qasida.^{[citation needed]}

Although he wrote numerous ghazals and nazms, because of the religious nature of his poetry and the issues he dealt with, he was known as 'Shair-e-Ahle-bait.'^{[citation needed]}

Work and Career[]

Long before the Progressive Writers Movement came into existence his poetry dealt with the issues and themes which were the hallmark of the movement.^{[citation needed]}

He published five collections of poetry; Mah-e-Wafa, Iqbal-e-Wafa, Jamal-e-Wafa, Ilham-e-Wafa, and he had noted the name of Najm Afandi and Haider Dehlvi as his teachers in each one of them.^{[citation needed]}

He influenced generation of poets who adopted marsia, salam, qasida and other similar genres of poetry in Urdu.^{[citation needed]}

Death[]

He died naturally in 1975 in Karachi and is buried at the infamous Sakhi Hassan Graveyard, North Nazimabad.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

External links[]

• Najm Afandi, a forgotten poet
• Excerpts from marsia by Najm Afandi