Sahir Hashmi Adeeb, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Sahir Hashmi Adeeb

poet

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1929

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1999

Profession: poet, author

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Sahir Hashmi Adeeb (22 June 1929 – 6 August 1999 in Kanpur, full name: Syed Mohammad Rasheed Hashmi) was an Indian Urdu poet. He served the All-India Poonam Cultural Society in Kanpur as President and the Adab-e Aaliya in Kanpur as Joint Secretary.
During his tenure, the All-India Poonam Cultural Society published more than fifteen of his books on Urdu poetry and arranged hundreds of Mushairas.He started Payam-e-Adab, an Urdu Magazine in 1947, which could not be continued during the Partition of India.A selected collection of his poetry, including ghazals, nazms, quatAat, and rubaiyat, was published in 1981 as Naqeeb-e-Khudi, and a collection of Hamd and Naats as zikr Hadi wa Hidayat in 1999.
Sahir was awarded the Hasrat Mohani Award for his contribution to Urdu poetry.