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انتخابِ کلامِ ذوق
By محمد ابراہیم ذوق
Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq (1790–1854) was a poet of Delhi, the teacher of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and a rival of Ghalib, admired for the finish of his ghazals. This book is a selection, not the complete diwan: it holds only the verse that volunteers have so far typed on Urdu Wikisource, 66 poems in all (62 ghazals, 4 qitas).
2 chapters · About 53 minutes of published text
انتخابِ کلامِ مومن
By مومن خان مومن
Momin Khan Momin (1800–1852) was a physician and poet of Delhi, a contemporary of Ghalib and Zauq, known for ghazals of love with delicate and subtle turns of thought. This book is a selection, not the complete diwan: it holds only the verse that volunteers have so far typed on Urdu Wikisource, 56 poems in all (52 ghazals, 4 quatrains).
2 chapters · About 44 minutes of published text
انتخابِ کلامِ میر
By میر تقی میر
Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810) is the eighteenth-century poet of Delhi and Lucknow whom Urdu readers have long ranked among the greatest writers of the ghazal; he also wrote masnavis, marsiyas and qasidas. This book is a selection, not the complete diwan: it holds only the verse that volunteers have so far typed on Urdu Wikisource, 581 poems in all (343 ghazals, 36 masnavis, 19 qitas, 105 quatrains, 34 marsiyas, 8 qasidas, 7 salams, 15 manqabats, 14 poems of other forms). This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
9 chapters · About 716 minutes of published text
انتخابِ نظیر اکبرآبادی
By نظیر اکبرآبادی
Nazir Akbarabadi (1735–1830), a poet of Agra, wrote Urdu verse about the life, work and festivals of ordinary people, and is remembered above all for his long nazms such as Banjara Nama, Admi Nama and the poems of Holi and Diwali. This book is a selection, not the complete diwan: it holds only the verse that volunteers have so far typed on Urdu Wikisource, 274 poems in all (224 ghazals, 28 nazms, 22 quatrains). This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
3 chapters · About 208 minutes of published text
باغ و بہار
By میر امّن دہلوی
Mir Amman's Garden and Spring (1802), written at Fort William College in Calcutta, is the Urdu telling of the Four Dervishes. A merchant-prince in trouble is found by a stranger, who has four wandering dervishes tell how each came to lose his throne or fortune. It is the book that made plain, spoken Delhi Urdu a language of prose. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
5 chapters · About 291 minutes of published text
بالِ جبریل
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Bal-e-Jibril ("Gabriel's Wing", 1935) is Muhammad Iqbal's second book of Urdu poems and is often counted his finest. Two parts of ghazals are followed by a section of quatrains and then the longer poems, among them "Masjid-e-Qurtuba" (The Mosque of Cordoba), "Zauq o Shauq", "Lenin" and the "Saqi Nama", several written on his travels in Spain, Italy and Afghanistan. Its subjects are selfhood, love, faith, freedom and the fate of the Muslim world.
4 chapters · About 80 minutes of published text
بانگِ درا
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Bang-e-Dara ("The Call of the Marching Bell", 1924) is Muhammad Iqbal's first book of Urdu poems, arranged in three parts by the periods of his life: the years before he left for Europe in 1905, his student years there until 1908, and the time after his return. It holds nature poems and verses for children, patriotic songs such as "Tarana-e-Hindi", and the great poems "Shikwa", "Jawab-e-Shikwa", "Khizr-e-Rah" and "Tulu-e-Islam", with a section of ghazals closing each part and humorous verse at the end. Read in order, it follows Iqbal's turn from an Indian patriotism toward a larger vision of a renewed Muslim community.
7 chapters · About 181 minutes of published text
بزم آخر
By منشی فیض الدین دہلوی
Munshi Faizuddin Dehlvi records daily life in the courts of Akbar Shah II and Bahadur Shah Zafar. His chapters describe palace rooms, processions, meals, festivals, speech, and customs in the last decades of Mughal Delhi.
30 chapters · About 80 minutes of published text
پس چه باید کرد ای اقوام شرق
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Pas Chih Bayad Kard ay Aqwam-e-Sharq ("What Then Is To Be Done, O Nations of the East?", 1936) is a late Persian mathnavi of Muhammad Iqbal on the spiritual and political state of the East, with chapters on the wisdom of Moses and of Pharaoh, on poverty and the free man, on the Shariah, and on the divisions of India and the Arabs. It is printed with Musafir ("The Traveller", 1934), his verse account of a journey to Afghanistan, with visits to the tombs of Babur, Sanai and Sultan Mahmud and a closing address to the king.
2 chapters · About 45 minutes of published text
پیامِ مشرق
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Payam-e-Mashriq ("The Message of the East", 1923) is Muhammad Iqbal's answer in Persian to Goethe's West-östlicher Divan, a book of poems that speaks for the East to the West. After a dedication to King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan come the Tulip of Sinai, a long run of quatrains, then short poems of thought, ghazals, and the "Naqsh-e-Farang", verses in conversation with Goethe, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel, Bergson and other European minds, with a few fragments at the end.
6 chapters · About 79 minutes of published text
تاریخ یوسفی المعروف بہ عجائبات فرنگ
By یوسف خاں کمبل پوش
Yusuf Khan Kambalposh recounts his journey from India to Europe in one of Urdu's earliest travel books. The account follows his stops at the Cape, London, France, and Egypt before his return.
9 chapters · About 263 minutes of published text
جاوید نامه
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Javid Nama ("The Book of Eternity", 1932) is Muhammad Iqbal's Persian epic of a journey through the heavens, in which Rumi guides the poet, as Virgil guides Dante, through the spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and on beyond them to the presence of God. On the way he meets poets, mystics, prophets and rulers, among them Jamaluddin Afghani, al-Hallaj, Ghalib, Nietzsche and Tipu Sultan. It is addressed to his son Javid and closes with a message to the young. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
8 chapters · About 110 minutes of published text
حكاية السندباد البحري
In Baghdad in the days of Harun al-Rashid a poor porter named Sindbad rests outside a rich man's house and is called in by its owner, another Sindbad, who tells him how he came by his wealth through a series of sea voyages. Each voyage ends in shipwreck among marvels, monsters and strange islands, and each is told on a night of Shahrazad's telling.
42 chapters · About 155 minutes of published text
دمعة وابتسامة
By جبران خليل جبران
Kahlil Gibran's 1914 collection of short prose pieces in Arabic, written in New York for the Arabic press of the emigrants. Prose poems, parables and small scenes of love, death, poverty, nature and the poet's place in the world, in the soft, musical style that his later English books carried to a wider public.
55 chapters · About 89 minutes of published text
دہلی کی آخری شمع
By مرزا فرحت اللہ بیگ
Mirza Farhatullah Baig's Delhi's Last Candle (1928) is an imagined report of a poets' gathering held in Delhi in 1845, in the last years before the Mughal city was broken up. It introduces the poets one by one, among them Zauq, Ghalib and Momin, and is read for its picture of the city's manners and speech rather than for a plot.
5 chapters · About 121 minutes of published text
دیوانِ غالب
By مرزا غالب
This collection presents the Urdu poetry of Mirza Ghalib, including ghazals, qasidas, qit'as, rubaiyat and other verse arranged in the sections of the source web book. Ghalib's intricate lyric poems explore love, longing, wit, faith and the uncertainties of human life. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
52 chapters · About 291 minutes of published text
رسالة الغفران: الجزء الأول
By أبو العلاء المعري
The blind poet Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri of Syria wrote this long letter to a minor Aleppan scholar in the eleventh century, and it turns into an imagined journey through the Garden: the scholar enters paradise and meets the great poets of Arabic, from al-A'sha and Labid to Antara and Tarafa. Part one is the tour of the Garden, with its rivers of wine, learned talk and laughing wit at the expense of the grammarians. The book is often set beside Dante's Comedy, though it is some three centuries earlier.
28 chapters · About 81 minutes of published text
رسالة الغفران: الجزء الثاني
By أبو العلاء المعري
The second part of al-Ma'arri's Epistle of Forgiveness leaves the Garden for the other side of the next world, where the scholar meets Sibawayh, Di'bil, al-Hallaj, Ibn al-Rumi, Ibn al-Rawandi and other grammarians, poets and freethinkers of earlier centuries and hears what became of them. The blind poet of Ma'arra keeps up his dry irony throughout while asking who may hope for pardon.
16 chapters · About 69 minutes of published text
رسالہ نذر آصف یعنی مرقع زبان و بیان دہلی
By سید احمد دہلوی
Syed Ahmad Dehlvi describes the speech of Delhi across generations and social settings. The essays compare court and city usage, record women's idioms, and examine the languages that shaped Urdu. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
18 chapters · About 105 minutes of published text
رشید و زہرہ
By منشی محمد مصطفیٰ خاں آفت
Muhammad Mustafa Khan Aafat's Rashid o Zohra is a short nineteenth-century romance in eight chapters, each headed by its number in words and opened with a verse. It tells of the love of Rashid and Zohra and the troubles that bring Zohra to grief.
8 chapters · About 60 minutes of published text
رموزِ بیخودی
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Rumuz-e-Bekhudi ("The Mysteries of Selflessness", 1918) is the companion mathnavi to Asrar-e-Khudi: where that book is about the individual, this one is about the community (millat). It sets out the pillars of the Muslim community, belief in one God and the prophethood of Muhammad, and goes on to its ideals of brotherhood, equality and freedom, its law and its centre at Mecca, and the part of women and mothers in it. It ends with a summary drawn from the Surah al-Ikhlas and a plea made in the presence of the Prophet. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
3 chapters · About 55 minutes of published text
زبان اردو کی ترقی کا مسئلہ
By سید سلیمان ندوی
Syed Sulaiman Nadvi considers obstacles to the development of Urdu and proposes ways to strengthen the language. The work brings together two essays, including answers to questions from Anjuman Urdu-e-Mualla.
2 chapters · About 29 minutes of published text
زبورِ عجم
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Zabur-e-Ajam ("The Persian Psalms", 1927) is Muhammad Iqbal's book of Persian ghazals, in which the old language of love and longing is turned to the call for selfhood, action and a new world. It is followed by two mathnavis: Gulshan-e-Raz-e-Jadid, a modern answer to Shabistari's Gulshan-e-Raz, and Bandagi-Nama, the "Book of Servitude", which ends with a section on the arts of the enslaved and on the making of free men.
4 chapters · About 78 minutes of published text
سیر ایران
By محمد حسین آزاد
After returning from Iran, Muhammad Husain Azad described his journey in a lecture delivered in Lahore. This short work preserves his observations in a preface and the lecture itself.
1 chapter · About 29 minutes of published text