Nemo

Pakis exaggerate Iqbal because they are literary miskeen (poor). Urdu is a borrowed language for them, and they are totally detached from its vast literary heritage. Unfortunately, some of our own legit believe this. I highlighted this concern in an older post of mine: 👉 teapawt.net/Rustum_0/status/211222… For this very reason, I decided to create a catalogue of Indo-Muslim poets (just poets), born before 1850, and their works and genre and estimate of composition in total pages and verses. 👉 teapawt.net/Rustum_0/status/211407… The reason for this ignorance is that our civilisational literary works have neither been publicised nor taught, nor even comprehensively surveyed or introduced. Owing to this, the "ghodon ke beech mein gadhe" are hyped through robust state patronage and enforced glorification. As of today (while typing this), my catalogue [based on previous ones] comprises around 1,189 poets (only poets, by the way, not authors of other genres), ending with Imdad Hussain of Meerut. This is only a fraction of the total, and the catalogue continues to grow. I cannot mention them all, but let me elaborate on this subject. Keep in mind - Iqbal wrote some 9000 Persian verses and 6000 Urdu verses in total. ————— Sheikh Muhammad Roshan (Patna, Bihar) left a Diwan of 30,000 verses of mystic, philosophical and introspective poetry.. he is considered one of the best mystical Urdu poets. Ghulam Hussain Khan (Sonipat, Haryana) left some 100,000 verses - in romance and mysticism. Shah Alam Bahadur (Delhi) left us behind multiple works, one being 13,500 verses long Qissa-e Muzaffar Shah, a fictional poetic epic of chivalry and heroism. Diwan of Mir Akbar Ali [Urdu] consists of 8,856 bayts (couplets), additionally qaseedahs of 30 pages, and Ajaibat Mehnat She'ari by Mahmud Bakhsh Kamal-ul-Hikmat by Mir Kamal Ali, an extensive treatise on philosophy. Darya-e Latafat by Maseehuddin Khan Bahadur, a treatise of logic and reasoning (he wrote extensive treatises on astronomy and philosophy and politics in Persian). Char Chaman by Sheikh Muhammad, an extensive treaties on political philosophy (also authored a Diwan and a separate masnavi, Musa Bagh). Sayyid Abul Qasim Dehlavi left 7000 sher (dsitchs), and a masnavi (poem) on Meraj (30,5000 verses) and on the miracles of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (5200 verses) Again -- as I told -- this is merely a drop in the ocean. —————— Tazkirah of Nawab Muhammad Khan ‘Sarwar’, compiled in 1801 CE - it gives us a list of 1200 major Urdu poets. (there are other tazkiras with distinct names) How much of the work of all these has this Pakistani Musalman or his LARPer-type miskeen countrymen even read to issue such definitive statement, let alone make a comparison with that medicore known as Iqbal? How much have these "aesthetic" Indian Muslims with their gay jhabbo baal even read to be disrespecting our literary heritage by bringing up that damn Iqbal, who isn't even in the race, as though he were some particularly significant figure? —————— Let aside Urdu.. here are late [not early, but late] Indo-Muslim Persian Poets (born and died in Hindustan, Gangetic Plain) 1) Qazi Nurul Haqq Bareilwi left 300,000 verses (religious philosophy and merits) 2) Muhammad Shafi 'Saalima' left 100,000 verses (philosophy) 3) 'Shayda' left 50,000 verses 4) Abdul Qadir 'Bedil' left 100,000 verses 5) Shamshuddin Faqir left 7000 couplets and 15,000 verses glorifying the Prophet. 6) Mir Qamaruddin left 100,000 lines (Shakaristan) Yet again -- this is merely a drop in the ocean. —————— It is natural for the poor to hype their donkey. But we, the race of lions and horses, the natives, not borrowers, how can we be expected to embrace their donkeys? Let them stick to "Bulla/Lulla Ki Jaana Mai Kaun"...