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اکبرؔ الہ آبادی
Akbar Allahabadi Poetry
The judge who laughed at his age in verse. Read Akbar’s best-known ashaar, sharp, funny and still true, and download any of them as a picture.
- Full name
- Syed Akbar Hussain Rizvi
- Pen name
- Akbar
- Born
- 16 November 1846, near Allahabad
- Died
- 9 September 1921, Allahabad
- Best known for
- Wit and satire
Shayari
Famous ashaar of Akbar Allahabadi
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ہم آہ بھی کرتے ہیں تو ہو جاتے ہیں بدنام
وہ قتل بھی کرتے ہیں تو چرچا نہیں ہوتا
کھینچو نہ کمانوں کو نہ تلوار نکالو
جب توپ مقابل ہو تو اخبار نکالو
ہنگامہ ہے کیوں برپا تھوڑی سی جو پی لی ہے
ڈاکا تو نہیں مارا چوری تو نہیں کی ہے
دنیا میں ہوں دنیا کا طلب گار نہیں ہوں
بازار سے گزرا ہوں خریدار نہیں ہوں
Life
Syed Akbar Hussain was born in 1846 near Allahabad. He studied law, rose through the courts and retired as a sessions judge, and the British government gave him the title Khan Bahadur. He lived and died in Allahabad, in 1921.
Poetry and style
Akbar is the great comic poet of Urdu. He watched Indians of his day rush to copy English ways, dress and ideas, and he mocked it with gentle, biting wit. Behind the jokes is a serious worry about losing one’s own culture. He also wrote tender ghazals; «ہنگامہ ہے کیوں برپا» became famous in the voice of Ghulam Ali.
Books
- Kulliyat-e-Akbar: his collected poetry, in several volumes
Write your own verse in Nastaliq
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Questions
About Akbar Allahabadi
Why is Akbar Allahabadi famous?
For his witty, satirical Urdu poetry about the society of his time.
What was Akbar Allahabadi’s profession?
He was a judge, and retired as a sessions judge.
Who sang «ہنگامہ ہے کیوں برپا»?
Its best-known version is by Ghulam Ali.