NAAT is an Arabic word and it means, literally, praise. In Urdu, naat means the praise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). A poem with praise of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is also called naat in Urdu. In ...

Ameer Ahmed Ameer Meenai was the kind of person we don't come across anymore. There used to be people who simply mastered so many things at the same time that we now find it hard to believe Ameer ...

Known literary figure Iftikhar Arif, the chief guest, said Urdu has no parallel as far as marsias are concerned. Moreover, he added, collections of marsias appeared in a number of Pakistani languages ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) has brought out a special issue of quarterly “Adbiyat” on the genre of Naat. Chairman PAL Shiraz Latif said the magazine will serve as a reference document ...