Sahir Hashmi Adeeb was a well-known Urdu Poet of the Modern-Urdu-literature. His poetry is special in the sense that it follows strictly the norms and standards laid by the great Urdu poets and legends but at the same time addresses the present day’s ambition, challenges, problems, feelings, passion, pain of a common man. He uses skillfully the idioms, the phrases, the traditional terminology and expresses all in the simplest form. He is well read and has independent thinking. His personality exhibits the extraordinary quality of braveness that helps him to speak the truth with conviction and courage. He touches the heart, he sings melody and he promotes the freedom.
Name and period
Name: Syed Mohammad Rasheed Hashmi
Pen name:SAHIR HASHMI ADEEB
Date of birth: 22nd June 1929
Birth place: Kalpi, District Jalaun
Left for heavenly abode: 06th August 1999 (Kanpur)
Family
Father’s name: Rahim Bakhsh
Mother’ name: Saeeda Khatoon
Wife’s name: Jameela Begum
Elder Son: Syed Anwer Rasheed Hashmi
Younger Son: Syed Azhar Rasheed Hashmi
Daughter: Anjum Rashid
Literary work
Books Published: 1) Naqeeb-e Khudi (Ghazals, Nazms, QuatAat, Rubaiyat, Dohey) 1981
2) Dikr Hadi wa Hidayat (Collection of Nauts)
Book Edited:Masjid-e AQSA ki Pukar (A collection of nazm)
Started Monthly magazine: PAYAM-E-ADAB
Award received: HASRAT MOHANI AWARD
Literary activities:President of All India Poonam Cultural Society, Kanpur, Joint Secretary, Adab-e Aaliya, Kanpur
Other informationProfession: Electrical Engineer in Elgin Mills Company Ltd, Kanpur
Visit Abroad: KSA and Pakistan
Performed Haj: 1996
Education
Educated from:Madarsa Taleemul Quraan, Kanpur
Maulan Mohammad Ali Memorial Hr Sec. School, Kanpur
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
Teachers
Maulvi Hafiz Qari Murad Ali, Maulvi Hafiz Qari Abdus-Shakoor AQUIL, Maulana Wasim Sambhi, Janab ROOHI ALLAHABADI, Maulvi Saeed Ahmad RAZMI, Master Abdul Halim SHARUR, Maulana Shabbir Hasan SHABBIR, Janab SALIK-UL- HASHMI, Janab QAMAR-UL-HASHMI, Janab AASHIQUE MAURANWI
First Ghazal in 1947
नए अंदाज़ से वह आ रहे हैं ,
क़यामत साथ अपने ला रहे हैं
बहुत खुश हो के वह निकले हैं घर से
किसी का दिल दुखाने जा रहे हैं
Naye andaz se woh aa rahe hainQayamat sath apne la rahe hain Bahut khush ho ke woh nikle hain ghar seKisi ka dil dukhane ja rahe hain