is also called naat in Urdu. In Arabic poetry, the genre naat does exist but it is called ‘madh’ or ‘madeeh’. The earliest naat was written in Arabic during the lifetime of Prophet ...

In his editorial titled ‘Naat aur Urdu ki she’ari tehzeeb’ Mirza ... He says, for example, “a few dissertations written on naat for obtaining a PhD are truly thought-provoking, informative ...

Urdu language had the greatest corpus of naat ... Scholar Jehan Ara Lutfi commented that many non-Muslim poets had also written naat and paid their respects to the Holy Prophet (pbuh).

And the Urdu poet ... I found vast amounts of poetry written by Hindu and Sikh poets on Eid and Milad-un Nabi as also large numbers of soz, marsiya, naat, manqabad on subjects culled specifically ...

When renowned naat khawan Owais Raza Qadri recites ‘Samaa Hai Noor Ka nikla chand,’ one will undeniably stand up in veneration to the last messenger of Allah, the Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (PBUH).