Hamd is a poetic genre that exclusively praises Allah. The word hamd comes from Arabic root ‘h,m,d’ and it literally means to praise. The Arabic word Muhammad is also derived from the same root and ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) has brought out a special issue of quarterly “Adbiyat” on the genre of Naat. Chairman PAL Shiraz Latif said the magazine will serve as a reference document ...

Known literary figure Iftikhar Arif, the chief guest, said Urdu has no parallel as far as marsias are concerned. Moreover, he added, collections of marsias appeared in a number of Pakistani languages ...