Ahmad Raza Khan as an Arabic Poet in the light of his Dewan "Basateen ul Ghufraan" بساتين الغفران

Abstract

The soil of the Subcontinent is quite rich in producing scholars and great men in every field. We possess a huge treasure of literature by famous scholars of this land. Ahmad Raza Khan, religious scholar, writer, and poet, is one of the great contributors to this treasure. This research contains a brief description of his life, his poetry and his Arabic Dewan (collection of poetry) (”بساتین الغفران“ Orchards of Forgiveness) along with some examples with translation and explanation of verses from dewan. The poet has plenty of literary work and his qualifications and educational excellence is well known in the subcontinent in particular and in the Arab World in general. This Dewan is a fine example from the vast sea of his writings. This research also shows the marvelous Arabic Poetry by Ahmad Raza Khan. We only focused, in this article, Ahmad Raza Khan and his Arabic poetry which was collected by Prof. Hazim Muhammad Ahmad and in addition to that, also presented a brief background and struggle for this collection.