Abid Ali Abid

Syed Abid Ali Abid (سید عابد علی عابد) was an Urdu and Persian poet and educator who was born on 17 September 1906 in Tehran, Iran and died in Khuzdar, Pakistan on 20 January 1971.

He was well known for his literary criticism and had hundreds of students, many of them now themselves poets and writers. He wrote many books on literary criticism in Urdu and Persian. He also initiated and edited several literary journals, one of which is Sahifa-Lahore. He also was one of the initial drama writers and feature writers at the newly established Radio Pakistan Lahore in the late 1940s and 1950s. He was one of the story and dialogue writers of the first sound film (talking film) of the Punjab Heer Ranjha (1931). He survived three heart attacks but succumbed to the fourth in 1971.

Son of Syed Ghulam Abbas, he was the eldest brother of eight siblings. His sisters Syeda, Zahra, Mehmooda and Shamim, his brothers Mehmood, and Jawad lived with him in Iran before they migrated to Pakistan. Later, one of his daughters Shabnam Shakeel followed the footsteps of her father, and became a poet based in Islamabad. His only son Syed Menoo Chehr served as Secretary to Government of the Punjab in various departments as well as Chief settlement Commissioner, Punjab and was retired as Member Board of Revenue, Punjab and is also the author of two biographical treaties titled Mere Shab-o-Roz and karwan-e-Guzran and a novel Azmaish Dil-o-Nazar ki.

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