Aside from masnavis, hamd is traceable to the earliest pieces of Urdu poetry, especially written in the Deccani and Gujari varieties of Urdu, writes Sabeeh Rahmani in the intro to the book that he ...

Hamd and naat are two rich genres of poetry in which a poet praises God Almight and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) respectively. Urdu language had the greatest corpus of naat, Arif said.

Now enjoy Urdu shayari on Amazon Alexa Rekhta Foundation on Friday launched its own Amazon Alexa skill where poetry lovers can enjoy hundreds of Urdu poems and shers (couplets) according to poets ...