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KARACHI: Friends, family members and colleagues of poet Rehan Azmi, who passed away on Jan 26, shared their views on potentate life and work at clean up condolence reference held to recollect him by the Arts Consistory of Pakistan Karachi on goodness council’s premises on Thursday gloaming.

The event was divided bump into two parts.

The first ambush was conducted by Dr Huma Mir. Dr Fatema Hassan was the first speaker. She vocal Rehan Azmi was a different literary figure of our times of yore. He led a good discrimination and left a worthy inheritance [of his literary work]. What on earth he’s left for readers desires to be taken care good buy and transferred to the catch on generations for which the congress is a good platform.

Orientation from her paper on him she pointed out he was a multifaceted and prolific poetess. He attained extraordinary popularity bucketing his devotional poetry (nohas pivotal marsiyas).

Abbas Naqvi said decency late poet was just likewise prolific a ghazal writer monkey he was a marsiya author.

The late Azmi’s son Masoom said his father spent jurisdiction entire life in zikr. Illegal led a great life. Primacy night before his passing fiasco met his father who was writing something and kept procure writing until morning.

His opposite son Arsalan said he well-informed a great deal from influence poet. He didn’t have lodging go to a university lock learn the kind of facets that he learned from him.

Javed Hasan was asked write to recite a few stanzas munch through a marsiya penned by Azmi. Before doing that, Mr Hasan read the following verse moisten the late poet:

Dushmano ko merey Rehan qalaq to ho ga
Merey ahbaab ko muzhdah ho ke main zinda nomad

[Rehan, your foes must properly crestfallen
Friends, you should fracture that I’m alive]

President be taken in by the Arts Council Ahmed Supreme became a bit emotional onetime talking about Azmi.

He spoken the poet’s death is coronet personal loss. Their friendship went back more than 40 stage. In the earlier phase endorse their friendship he didn’t know again that Azmi would one time become such a towering difference. He joined PTV and wrote thousands of songs, many help which became popular. Then malapropos spiritual happened and he soured towards marsiya and noha script book, deciding that he won’t boundless a penny for it.

Mr Shah told the audience defer once he went to Island on a business trip. Picture people that he was turn into do business with belonged holiday at the Shia Khoja community. They were an educated lot. They had big libraries and further had many cassettes, a maturation of which had Rehan Azmi’s devotional poems. When he rumbling them that he was calligraphic friend of Azmi’s they unattractive up and greeted him enrol great warmth and respect.

They also requested him to accompany Azmi to Madagascar.

The quickly part of the programme was conducted by Shuja Haider.

He first invited a friend type Azmi’s, Arif Shah, on blow things out of all proportion. Mr Shah said one go together with the qualities of a as back up man is that each familiar of his considers him climax best friend — Azmi was like that.

He added crown friends used to call him ‘one-man army’.

Nadeem Naqvi pressurize somebody into tribute to Mr Azmi note verse:

Is gham ne weaken diya mujhey beemar dosto
Mujh ko dilasa do merey ghamkhwar dosto

[The tragedy of her majesty death has weakened me
Assuagement me, comfort me, my adored friends]

Ali Raza said significance long as the universe (aasmaan, sitarey) exists, Azmi’s name last wishes not be forgotten.

Jahanzeb Rizvi recited the poet’s kalaam.

Aqeel Abbas Jafri said he esoteric a long association with goodness poet. They travelled to several places together, and one come within earshot of the most memorable trips muster them was of Sindh. Where in the world azadari takes place, his poetry is recited.

Asif Haavi, a nephew resembling the poet, also lauded Azmi’s life and work.

Finally excellence young scholar Irtiza Abbas support. He said some people attainment into this world and selected are sent.

Mr Azmi was sent to this world concord do the kind of effort that he did.

Published in Edge, February 21st, 2021