Hayat e javed3/20/2024 ![]() ![]() Its extracts are still being taught in Muslim schools and recited in religious and educational functions. It created a wide spread awakening amongst the Muslims of India. Halis' Mussadas was about the rise and fall of the Muslims. Hali, on request of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan he wrote the famous Mussadas: ‘Musaddas e-Madd o-Jazr e-Islam’ which was published in 1879. After this, he drifted from job to job for several years, and finally settled in Lahore in the mid-1870s. He was forced to return home, and pursued a government job until displaced by the Independence movement of 1857. He later moved to Delhi where he wished to study the Islamic theology and poetic tradition. Circumstances did not allow him to get formal education in a school or college, but through sustained self-effort, he managed to acquire, perfect command of Urdu, Persian and Arabic, and a good working knowledge of English. He was the last pupil of ‘Mirza Ghalib’ and a close friend of ‘Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’, founder of Aligarh Muslim University. ![]() He was not only a great poet but, a critic, a teacher, a reformer and an impressive prose-writer. Khwaja Altaf Hussain ‘Hali’, an Urdu poet, writer and social reformer was born in Panipat, Punjab in 1837. ![]()
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