Khwaja haider ali aatish biography
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Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Mughal Urdu language poet
Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish | |
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Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish | |
| Born | 1764 (1764) |
| Died | 1846 (1847) |
| Pen name | Aatish |
| Occupation | Urdu poet |
| Language | Urdu |
| Period | Mughal India |
| Genre | Ghazal |
| Notable works | Kulliyat-e-Khwaja Haider Ali Atish Deewan-e-Aatish |
Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1764 –1846) of Lucknow was an Urdu poet. Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one of the giants of Urdu literature. Aatish and Imam Baksh Nasikh were contemporary poets whose rivalry is well known. Both had hundreds of disciples. The era of Aatish-Nasikh was a golden era for Urdu poetry in Lucknow. Aatish is mostly known for his ghazals, and for his amazing and different style of poetry.
Life
[edit]His ancestors had moved from Delhi to Lucknow. His focus on subjective experience, examining how people retain dignity in suffering, set him apart from other Luckhnavi ghazal writers like Nasikh, who emphasised the
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KHWAJA HAIDAR ALI AATISH
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Khwaja Haider Ali Atish (1777-1847), who hailed from a Sufi family of Delhi, was born in Faizabad. After spending his adolescent years there, he shifted to Lucknow which was then the goal of all literary dilettantes and masters. Neither associated with a court, nor influenced by the privileged and the powerful, Atish enjoyed his self-respect and courage of conviction. True to his spirit, he refused to be carried away by the splendour of the people in high places, and preferred to lead the life of a liberal Sufi and devote himself to the vocation of poetry.
Atish was a disciple of Mus’hafi and wrote both in Persian and Urdu. He is, however, remembered for his Urdu poetry as his Persian poetry has remained untraceable. He was extremely resourceful with the Urdu idiom and played upon the softness of its tone. Striking a balance between the odds and the evens in his poetry, he was now spontaneous now remote, now restrained now sentimental, now ratiocinate now mystical. His