Urdu language does not belong to a religion
Urdu does not enjoy the status it deserves because of lack of enough government support, well-known lyricist Javed Akhtar said.
Akhtar was inaugurating an Urdu book fair organised at the Jamia Millia Islamia here.
Every year the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) organises the book fair in different cities to promote Urdu language. This year’s book fair started on Saturday.
Akhtar said other languages belong to certain regions but unfortunately Urdu is the only language which has been assigned a religion. According to him, Urdu was the only language that talked about liberalism and secularism even before these words came into existence.
Akhtarul Wasey, vice chairman of the Delhi Urdu Academy, said “Urdu language does not belong to a religion. None of the languages need religion but all religions need a language.”
Azeez Burni, joint editor of Sahara newspaper, said: “Why do Indians feel ashamed of not being able to speak English? We should not forget that Urdu was the only language that showed its power during the struggle for independence. English was the most hated language at that time but now the situation is contrary. We have forgotten about our heritage.”
“Urdu will be ahead of all the languages in future because future lies in convergence,” said Dr Hameedullah Bhatt, director of NCPUL.
“Urdu has a very rich 500 years old past. Very big names of Indian history like Ghalib and Iqbal have been associated with Urdu. But the reason Urdu failed was partition,” Bhatt said.
Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi said Urdu needed a lot more to keep its identity alive. She said she was not invited to the function but her love for Urdu brought her here and the same kind of love and passion is needed to strengthen Urdu’s position.
Khalid Mahmood, managing director of Jamia Makhtaba Pvt Ltd, said their publication has been participating in this exhibition for 12 years. He said “this publication existed even before independence and it continues to exist in spite of the tough time it went through. It is true that Urdu does not enjoy the same status as English because of lack of support but still it is growing.”
Source: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=424627...
Urdu has many beautifull and respectfull words
Urdu might not be a Religious Language, but it could not be separated from Islam, Because it is the communication Language of the millions of the Muslims in the World. Secondly Urdu has the Largest Islamic Literature after Arabic n Persian......
Urdu could be a great source for the Unity of the Muslims.
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I totally agree with Mr. Azeez Burni, joint editor of Sahara newspaper, said: “Why do Indians feel ashamed of not being able to speak English? We should not forget that Urdu was the only language that showed its power during the struggle for independence. English was the most hated language at that time but now the situation is contrary. We have forgotten about our heritage.” and so it will happen to Urdu as well.
nice answers.
Qatar pride but the language of the Qur'an Al Kareem is Arabic not Urdu,although i agree Urdu is a beautiful and is a language filled with sweetness of literary acheivements in the past,no doubt about that.
You will find muslimns in the caucasian region of Russia speak a lot of Arabic as well.
Since Urdu Originates from Arabic, Persian And Hindi; it doesn't have originate from any religion but again Islam.
Urdu is also spoken by Muslim in the Russian region only due to Islam !!!!!
You could, however, argue that a religion forms a language, as the Qur'an did for Arabic and Martin Luther's translation of the Latin Bible did for the German language. So, which religious book formed Urdu?
Its true that Urdu doesn't belong to a religion but its heart belongs to Islam. And the majority of the literature milestones achieved in Urdu is Based on the Topics related to Islam and related philosophy since the script is Arabic + persian.
Its one of the most Beautiful and Sweet langiuages.
Even romantic, Bollywood is the living example of this; where 99% movies have Urdu songs and words for expression of a variety of emotions and situation.
Tameez meaning manners comes from urdu. Sher-0-shayri(a form of poetry) is only in urdu or looks beautiful in Urdu only.
Wat say!!!!!!!!!
That's absolutely right.In my opinion,i think that Urdu or any other language around the world does not belong to any particular religion in particular.
That's really an important issue for Qatar!