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26-01-2021
By SJA Jafri
KARACHI: Prof Dr Rehan Azmi, world-renown poet of mourning literature has passed away in Karachi. He was 63 years old.
According to his family, Dr Azmi had been ill for a long time. They said he was rushed to a private hospital in Karachi where his condition remained critical till he passed away.
Dr Azmi was born on July 7, 1958 in Karachi; his name was Syed Rehan Ababs, he graduated from Sirajuddaula College Karachi. Known by his pen name ‘Rehan Azmi’ started writing poetry in 1974. and was associated with Pakistan Television (PTV) for a long time as a poet.
During this time, he penned more than 4,000 poetries, including popular Pakistani song ‘Hawa Hawa Aye Hawa’ sung by Hassan Jahangir and ‘Khushboo Ban Kay Mehak Raha Hai’.
After some time, Dr Azmi lost touch with songwriting and established a connection with praise and salutation and became a poet of mourning literature.
He has more than 25 books of mourning literature to his name. Dr Azmi also won many medals at the international and national level for his work.
He had the honor of being a ‘Guinness World record’ holder for the 7th speediest poetry writing in the world in 1997.
Rehan Azmi is a reputed name in the Shia community, as well as all Urdu-speaking groups in Pakistan.
He was a great religious poet who had written a number of Naats and Qasidas such as, Khuwaab Se Tabeer Tak, Manzar Ba Manzar Karbala, Qalam Tor Dia and several more.
Not much is known as to how the poet passed away, but his fans mourn and pray as #RehanAzmi trends number 1 on Twitter.
He was apparently hospitalized and was in a poor health condition.
Once a Shia scholar named Talib Jauhari shared a few remarks on the poetry book by Rehan Azmi by saying, “Why does every Nauha reader want to recite Nauha written by Rehan? How come he fulfills the demand of all Nauha reciters? These were questions of my surprise; I got satisfied when I personally saw Rehan begging this literacy treasure from Hazrat Imam Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib (AS) at his shrine in Najaf.”
The blogger like millions of Rehan Azmi admirers never met him personally but always found him to close to the heart through his deeds. Hardly in his late twenties, Salman contributed much to emerge to be regarded as the final stone when it comes to delivery of Hussaini Kalam.
When stricken with multiple issues and rushed to the hospital after his condition deteriorated, prayers were offered across the globe for his recovery but destiny cut short his remarkable life.
The wife of Dr Rehan Azmi and the mother Salman Azmi has already been died of in Karachi on April 20, 2017 while Salman Azmi left this temporary world on November 17, 2017.
World Azadar Organization (WAO) arranged an especial prayers and fateha-khawani session at Karachi’s City Court Imam-Bargah over the sad demise of Prof Dr Rehan Azmi in which dozens of lawyers were participated.
