Aqeel turabi
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KARACHI: Distinguished Urdu poet Naseer Turabi died of a heart attack here on Sunday evening. He was 74. He leaves behind his wife and two sons.
Mr Turabi was born on June 15, 1945 in Hyderabad Deccan. He was the son of the renowned religious scholar and khateeb Allama Rasheed Turabi. After independence his family decided to migrate to Pakistan and settle in Karachi where he grew up. He obtained his masters degree in journalism from the University of Karachi in 1968 after which he joined an insurance company.
Despite having brilliant command over the Urdu language and a gift for writing top-notch poetry, he published his first collection of poems a bit late in his career. Titled Aks Faryadi it came out in the year 2000. Afterwards, he published a book on Urdu poetics Sheiryaat followed by Laraib (a collection of na’at, manqabat and salaam) and Lughatul Awam, a dictionary of slang or colloquial words. One of his ghazals whose first line is Woh hamsafar tha magar us se hum nawai na thi gained tremendous popularity when it was used as part of the soundtrack for a drama serial, al
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Naseer Turabi
Pakistani poet (1945–2021)
Naseer Turabi (Urdu: نصير ترابی; 15 June 1945 – 10 January 2021)[1][2] was a Pakistani Urdu language poet.
Playback singerAhmed Rushdi played a significant role in Turabi's success and helped popularize his ghazals.[3]
Early life and career
Naseer Turabi was born in Hyderabad Deccan on 15 June 1945.[2] His father, Allama Rasheed Turabi, was a religious scholar.[4]
Turabi came to Pakistan with his family after the independence of Pakistan in 1947 and settled in Karachi.[2][3] He finished his basic education in 1962[2] and received his M.A. in Mass Communications from University of Karachi in 1968.[5][3]
Turabi was friends with fellow poets Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Nasir Kazmi, and Mustufa Zaidi.[4]
He began writing poetry in 1962. His first collection of poetry, Aks-e-Faryadi, was published in 2000.[2][1] He wrote two other books: Laaraib and Sheyriaat.[5]
Pakistani singer Abida Par
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A Tribute to Naseer Turabi (1945-2021)
By Raghibul Haque
“If this young man develops his poetry the way he does, he will shine over Urdu poetry,” had replied Josh Malihabadi to Nadim Murabadi on being asked about his expectation regarding a young poet of his time. And this young man was Naseer Turabi who proved this prediction true by taking Urdu ghazal to a new height with his unifying sensibility, classical style and diction, and thought-provoking paradoxes.
Naseer Turabi was born on 15 June 1945 in Hyderabad which is now part of Telangana in India. He migrated to Pakistan well after the Partition. Turabi completed his Masters program in mass communication from Karachi University in 1962. Though he began writing Urdu poetry from a very early age, the first collection of his poetry Akas-e-Faryadi was published in 2000. Afterwards he published a book on poetics, Sheriyat, followed by Larib, which is a collection of na’at o manqebat and salaam, and Lughatul Awam, a dictionary of slang and colloquial language.
His interest in poetry developed when he was still
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