Haidar Ali Aatish

حیدر علی آتش

Haidar Ali Aatish in the original Urdu with a facing English translation. The first two chapters of each work are free with ads; Members and Patrons can read the full work without ads. Works can also be read in Roman Urdu and Hindi script.

Works by Haidar Ali Aatish

Ghazal

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Aatish ka Kalam (Poems of Aatish)

آتش کا کلام

Haidar Ali Aatish

One hundred and two ghazals and two groups of verses by Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish of Lucknow (d. 1847), pupil of Mushafi and one of the two great masters of the Lucknow ghazal: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Rich in wordplay and bold reversals of the old stories, and proud in its poverty, his verse plays constantly on his pen name, "fire". Urdu text with a new, line-by-line English translation, notes on puns and allusions, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Haidar Ali Aatish, Aatish ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/aatish-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.

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