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Abdul Halim Sharar

Abdul Halim Sharar
Born Abdul Halim Sharar
(1860-09-04)September 4, 1860
Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
Died 1 December 1926(1926-12-01) (aged 66)
Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
Occupation Novelist, poet, essayist, historian, playwright
Nationality Indian
Period 1885–1926
Genre Drama, nonfiction, history, personal correspondence
Notable works Firdaus-e-Bareen; Zawāl-e-Baghdad; Husn kā Daku; Darbar-e-Harampur; Guzishta Lucknow

Abdul Halim Sharar (Urdu: عبدالحلیم شرر‎; September 4, 1860 – December, 1926) was a prolific Indian author, playwright, essayist and historian from Lucknow. He left behind, in all, hundred and two books. He often wrote about the Islamic past and extolled virtues like courage, bravery, magnanimity and religious fervour. Malikul Azia Vārjina (1889), Firdaus-e-Bareen (1899), Zawāl-e-Baghdad (1912), Husn kā Daku (1913–1914), Darbar-e-Harampur (1914) and Fateh Maftūh (1916) are some of his famous novels.

His book Guzishta Lucknow is still considered as one of the best narrative describing the genesis of the city and its culture of Lucknow.

Abdul Halim Sharar was born in Lucknow in 1860. His father Hakim Tafazzul Husain was a scholar of Islamic religion and Persian literature. Sharar was educated at home where he learnt Arabic and Persian. He started learning Greek medicine system but did not finish it. In 1880 Sharar married his first cousin.

فردوس بریں This Historical content tells us when a new sect was tried to invent and was named فرقہ باطنیہ (Sect of Spirituality) and their leaders conspired to rule out Islam and they established highly secret society and they created artificial Paradise. They would make people stunned by their network of spies. They would sneak up a person's personal life and would pretend to tell the hidden (غیب) then that person would become their devotee and would do anything they would demand. History shows they captured a lot of people and made them to kill many renowned people and Scholars (علماء). According to history Halaku Khan (ہلاکو خان) son of Ganges Khan or Changez Khan in Urdu چنگیز خان found these people and he disposed of them all. He authored a magazine dil gudaaz initially from Luckhnow and later from Hyderabad where he was in the service of Nizam of Hyderabad.


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