Waqai-E-Karbala
O' My Allah, what has happened?
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Ali Sarwar Naqvi
MississaugaWriting for 21 years
under dark clouds, all we need is a speck of dust
Life long Poet, previously published & self published. Everything I am today is because of God and the representatives he gave us — including, and importantly, Ahle Bayt!
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Favourite poets
Ali Safdar (Dua Karo), Tupac Shakur, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Marshall Mathers, Shawn Carter, Naqi Rizvi
First poem
It was so long ago that I cannot recall my first one. Rather allow me to pinpoint to my first one about Karbala which is massive for me because after years of writing English poems about life lessons, I finally achieved the milestone of using my talent to write out a poem about the event that played such an important part of my upbringing. It was 2022, COVID was still with us. Lockdown majlises with limited capacities. A friend of my was hosting his first ever youth majlis, at home. He randomly asked me if I wanted to recited something. I said yes, even though I had nothing to recite. It was in that moment, by the Grace of God, this Karbala poem was made. Alhumdolillah!
Published in
Young Writer’s of Canada, 2012 Poetic Justice - a self published anthology created and donated to my High School (Mississauga Secondary School) at Graduation