Ey Khuda!

…Teri hi nam se har ibtida hai — Teri hi nam tak har intiha hai;
Teri hamd-o-sana, Alhamdulillah — Keh Tu mere Muhammad ka Khuda hai.


Alif-Zabar aaa, alif-zeyr ey, alif-pesh o…
Aaa—Ey—O!

Aaiye, aaiye, tashreef laiye! Velcome to the home of Alif-Zabar!

Hopingfully, this site will share some reflections and dabblings in creative writing. The name of Alif-Zabar pays homage to the age-old method employed by Desi mothers to teach the Arabic and Urdu alphabets, as inspired (maybe not) by Joy Mukherjee Sahab. Please refer to his instructional video.

about-trout

Naba Choudhury is a semi-misplaced-replaced Bengali-Canadian and part-time aspirant linguist and littérateur trying to flaunt a scanty knowledge of Urdu. I also struggle with love-hate feelings towards postmodernism.

Allahumma salli `ala sidna Muhammad


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