Nazeer Akbarabadi was a poet of 18th century who wrote many Urdu Ghazals and nazams under pen name “Nazeer”. He was a poet of subcontinent. Nazeer Akbarabadi was son of Muhammad Farooq and his mother was the daughter of Nawab Sultan Khan who was governor of Agra Fort. Agra is now an Indian city which was known as Akbarabad after Mughal emporer Akbar at that time. Nazeer Akbarabai was born in Delhi in 1735 AD his date of birth is not accurate, it is only an guess of biographers.
His period of birth accompanied with the decline of Mughal Empire in India. In 1739 when Nazeer was still a child Nadir Shah attacked Delhi and Muhammad Shah Rangeela was arrested. He was later released but incalculable people cruelly killed in Delhi.The opposition of this plunder were still fresh in the minds of people when after 18 years in 1757 AD, Ahmad Shah Abdali attacked Delhi. People left Delhi to save their lives and moves toward safer cities. Nazeer was also moved from Delhi along with his mother and grandmother to Akbarabad. At this time his age was 80 years. Poetic treasure of Nazeer Akbarabadi consisted of about 200,000 verses but unluckily a larger segment of his poetry was ruined and only 6000 verses are available in printed form. No other Urdu poet in the history used as many words as Nazeer did. Nazeer’s poetry conveyed quandary of common people in his own language and his poetry is very popular among people. Nazeer Akbarabadi died in 1830 AD at the age of 98.
when ahmad shah abdali attacked delhi,, nazeer akbar abadi was 80 years old ,,, he migrated along with his mother and even grand mother to some safer city????
ReplyDeletenazeer akbar abadi was himself 80 years old so how were his mother and even his grandmother were still alive?? :/ :/