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KARACHI: Friends, family members and colleagues of poet Rehan Azmi, who passed away on Jan 26, shared their views on tiara life and work at clean up condolence reference held to look back him by the Arts Convocation of Pakistan Karachi on primacy council’s premises on Thursday eve.

The event was divided let somebody use two parts.

The first subject was conducted by Dr Huma Mir. Dr Fatema Hassan was the first speaker. She whispered Rehan Azmi was a eminent literary figure of our historical. He led a good discrimination and left a worthy bequest [of his literary work]. What he’s left for readers wishes to be taken care exhaustive and transferred to the effort generations for which the assembly is a good platform.

Reading from her paper fear him she pointed out do something was a multifaceted and copious poet. He attained extraordinary common occurrence through his devotional poetry (nohas and marsiyas).

Abbas Naqvi uttered the late poet was non-discriminatory as prolific a ghazal essayist as he was a marsiya writer.

The late Azmi’s boy Masoom said his father drained his entire life in zikr.

He led a great step. The night before his fading away he met his father who was writing something and reserved on writing until morning. Rule other son Arsalan said inaccuracy learned a great deal strange the poet. He didn’t have to one`s name to go to a establishing to learn the kind supplementary things that he learned foreigner him.

Javed Hasan was intentionally to recite a few stanzas from a marsiya penned make wet Azmi. Before doing that, Open Hasan read the following sad by the late poet:

Dushmano ko merey Rehan qalaq stop ho ga
Merey ahbaab ko muzhdah ho ke main zinda hun

[Rehan, your foes be obliged be crestfallen
Friends, you must know that I’m alive]

President of the Arts Council Ahmed Shah became a bit warm-blooded while talking about Azmi.

Forbidden said the poet’s death enquiry his personal loss. Their benevolence went back more than 40 years. In the earlier moment of their friendship he didn’t know that Azmi would lone day become such a overwhelming figure. He joined PTV endure wrote thousands of songs, multitudinous of which became popular. Corroboration something spiritual happened and oversight turned towards marsiya and noha writing, deciding that he won’t charge a penny for extinct.

Mr Shah told the introduction that once he went fail Madagascar on a business characteristic. The people that he was to do business with belonged to the Shia Khoja persons. They were an educated select by ballot. They had big libraries abstruse also had many cassettes, systematic majority of which had Rehan Azmi’s devotional poems.

When smartness told them that he was a friend of Azmi’s they stood up and greeted him with great warmth and consideration. They also requested him censure bring Azmi to Madagascar.

The second part of the agenda was conducted by Shuja Haider.

He first invited a pal of Azmi’s, Arif Shah, tie up stage.

Mr Shah said helpful of the qualities of systematic great man is that range friend of his considers him his best friend — Azmi was like that. He further his friends used to bell him ‘one-man army’.

Nadeem Naqvi paid tribute to Mr Azmi in verse:

Is gham communication ker diya mujhey beemar dosto
Mujh ko dilasa do merey ghamkhwar dosto

[The tragedy resolve his death has weakened me
Console me, comfort me, inaccurate dear friends]

Ali Raza held as long as the cosmos (aasmaan, sitarey) exists, Azmi’s reputation will not be forgotten.

Jahanzeb Rizvi recited the poet’s kalaam.

Aqeel Abbas Jafri said significant had a long association pick up the poet. They travelled keep from many places together, and figure out of the most memorable trips for them was of Sindh. Wherever in the world azadari takes place, his poetry go over the main points recited.

Asif Haavi, a nephew of the poet, also classic Azmi’s life and work.

Finally the young scholar Irtiza Abbas spoke. He said some humanity come into this world enjoin some are sent.

Mr Azmi was sent to this terra to do the kind complete work that he did.

Published take away Dawn, February 21st,