Naʽat

"Naat" redirects here. For other uses, see Naat (disambiguation).

NaTemplate:Ayinat (Bengali: নাত; Punjabi and Urdu: نعت‎) is poetry in praise of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. The practice is popular in South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan and India), commonly in Bengali, Punjabi or Urdu. People who recite NaTemplate:Ayinat are known as NaTemplate:Ayinat Khawan or sanaTemplate:Ayina-khuaTemplate:Ayinan. Exclusive "Praise to Allah" and Allah alone is called Hamd, not to be confused with 'Na'at'.

In Arab countries, lyrics and praises said for Muhammad are called Madih nabawi.

History

It is difficult to trace the history of NaTemplate:Ayinat khawani since no authenticated record of when it was initiated can be found. One early author, Hassan, was known as Shair-e Darbaar-e Risalat. Even before accepting Islam he was a poet, but after embracing Islam he gave a new turn to his poetry and started writing Na'ats in honor of Muhammad. He was famous for his poetry that defended Muhammad in response to rival poets who attacked him and his religion. Therefore, Hassan is known as the first sana-khawaan (naTemplate:Ayinat reciter) of that time. After that many a poet followed this trend and totally dedicated themselves towards writing of naTemplate:Ayinats.

[[Talaʽ al-Badru ʽAlayna|TalaTemplate:Ayin al Badru Template:AyinAlayna]], is a traditional Islamic poem known as nasheed recited to Muhammad during his completion of migration to Medina in 622 CE, is believed to be one of the earliest naTemplate:Ayinats.

Language

Commonly the term naʽat shareef (exalted poetry) is reserved for poetry in the praise of Muhammad. In Arabic, na'at is usually called madih (praise) or nasheed (poetry), although the latter can describe any type of religious poetry.

Urdu Na'at anthologies

• Hadaiqe Bakshish by Ahmad Raza Khan
• Wasail e Bakhsish by Muhammad Ilyas Qadri
• Tajalliyāt, by Syed Waheed Ashraf First Ed.(1996), Second Ed.(2018) ISBN 978-93-85295-76-8, Maktaba Jamia Ltd, Shamshad Market, Aligarh 202002, India
• Urdū zabān men̲ naʻt goʼī kā fann aur tajallīyāt, 2001 (OCLC 50912916) by Syed Waheed Ashraf
• Safeena e Bakhshish by Akhtar Raza Khan (Azhari Miya)

Notable Na'at khawans

Na'at poets

• Hassan ibn Thabit
• Pir Syed Meher Ali Shah
• Amir Khusro
• Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
• Ahmed Raza Khan
• Pir Syed Naseer-uddin-Naseer
• Mustafa Raza Khan
• Muhammad Ilyas Qadri
• Mushtaq Qadri
• Syed Waheed Ashraf
• Muzaffar Warsi
• Akhtar Raza Khan
• Muhammad Iqbal
• Behzad Lucknavi

Urdu Na'at reciters

• Syed Sabihuddin Rehmani
• Junaid Jamshed
• Abrar ul Haq
• Syed Fasihuddin Soharwardy
• Siddiq Ismail
• Khursheed Ahmad
• Abdul Rauf Rufi
• Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi
• Bekal Utsahi
• Ajmal Sultanpuri
• Mushtaq Qadri

See also

• Hamd
• Islam in South Asia