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 "label": {
  "ar": "أصغر غوندوي",
  "en": "Asghar Gondvi",
  "ur": "اصغر گونڈوی"
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  "ar": "شاعر أردي (1884–1936)، وُلد باسم أصغر حسين في غوراخبور ونشأ في غوندا فنُسب إليها. تعلّم بنفسه حتى أتقن الأردية والعربية والفارسية، وحرّر مجلة «هندوستاني» في الله آباد سنوات، واشتهر بغزليات ذات نَفَس صوفي وفلسفي جُمعت في «نشاط روح» و«سرود زندگي».",
  "en": "Urdu poet (1884–1936), born Asghar Husain at Gorakhpur and raised at Gonda, from which his pen name Gondvi comes. Largely self-taught to mastery of Urdu, Arabic and Persian, he edited the magazine Hindustani at Allahabad for years and became known for ghazals of a Sufi and philosophical cast, collected as Nishat-e Rooh and Surood-e Zindagi.",
  "ur": "اردو کے شاعر (1884ء–1936ء)، جو گورکھپور میں اصغر حسین کے نام سے پیدا ہوئے اور گونڈہ میں پروان چڑھے، اسی نسبت سے گونڈوی کہلائے۔ انھوں نے ذاتی محنت سے اردو، عربی اور فارسی میں مہارت حاصل کی، برسوں الہ آباد سے شائع ہونے والے رسالے «ہندوستانی» کی ادارت کی، اور ان کی صوفیانہ و فلسفیانہ غزلیں «نشاطِ روح» اور «سرودِ زندگی» میں جمع ہوئیں۔"
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  "latest": 1937.000006844736
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   "edtf": "1884",
   "hijri": "1301",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The year 1884 is agreed by the English and Urdu articles, Rekhta and Wikisource. The English article and Rekhta give Gorakhpur as the birthplace, which the record follows; one Urdu literary profile gives Gonda and a 1 March 1884 date, and his family home was Gorakhpur district while his father was posted at Gonda, where the poet was raised and from which his nisba comes. The day-level dates in low-authority sites (6 February) are not recorded. The Hijri year (1301) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Gorakhpur or Gonda, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1936",
   "hijri": "1355",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The year 1936 and death by paralysis are agreed by the English and Urdu articles and the podcast tradition. The place is split: the English article gives Allahabad, and the Urdu Paimana-e-Ghazal tradition gives 30 November 1936 with burial at Allahabad in the enclosure of Shaykh Muhibullah's shrine, while the Urdu article's infobox gives Gonda. The record therefore carries the year at year precision with the split stated. The Hijri year (1355) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Allahabad or Gonda, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "Asghar Husain",
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    "value": "اصغر گونڈوی",
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   "note": "The year 1884 is agreed by the English and Urdu articles, Rekhta and Wikisource. The English article and Rekhta give Gorakhpur as the birthplace, which the record follows; one Urdu literary profile gives Gonda and a 1 March 1884 date, and his family home was Gorakhpur district while his father was posted at Gonda, where the poet was raised and from which his nisba comes. The day-level dates in low-authority sites (6 February) are not recorded. The Hijri year (1301) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Gorakhpur or Gonda, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1936",
   "hijri": "1355",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The year 1936 and death by paralysis are agreed by the English and Urdu articles and the podcast tradition. The place is split: the English article gives Allahabad, and the Urdu Paimana-e-Ghazal tradition gives 30 November 1936 with burial at Allahabad in the enclosure of Shaykh Muhibullah's shrine, while the Urdu article's infobox gives Gonda. The record therefore carries the year at year precision with the split stated. The Hijri year (1355) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Allahabad or Gonda, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "sufi",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "Two independent texts state his personal discipleship, which is the lane's test for a sufi segment. The Urdu article's text states that he formally took bay'ah (the initiation oath) at the hand of Shah Abdul Ghani and remained steeped in tasawwuf. The published Diwan-e-Asghar Gondvi's description states in text that he was a murid (disciple) of Hazrat Abdul Ghani Manglori. The Urdu Ghazal Podcast's synopsis corroborates in weaker words (he was under the spiritual influence of Sayed Abdul Ghani Kazmi and led a life of piety), and Rekhta's statement that his early verse was written under the influence of Sufi poets concerns his poetry and is not counted. No source names a madhhab for him, so no second segment is recorded.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Asghar Gondvi', Urdu Wikipedia 'اصغر گونڈوی', the Rekhta author profile and the Internet Archive item for the Diwan-e-Asghar Gondvi, read on 26 October 2026. The reading route used exposed no revision ids, so the sources are recorded in the consultation-date form and no Wikidata source file or external_ids are asserted. Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (gondvi, gondawi, asghar, husain), by Arabic label, by biography and by the Wikidata route across data/person/ — no earlier record exists; the Asghar who appears in Jigar Moradabadi's record as his friend is this man, and Jigar's record now gains its counterpart edge from this record (the Diwan description calls them pir-bhai, fellow-disciples of Abdul Ghani). No Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him; the Arabic prose is written from the English and Urdu sources and says so.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتكوين",
     "markdown": "وُلد أصغر حسين سنة 1884 في غوراخبور؛ وكان أبوه منشي تفضل حسين موظفا قانونيا انتقلت أسرته إلى غوندا طلبا للرزق، فنشأ الشاعر هناك ونُسب إليها. تعليمه الأول كان في البيت ولم ينل تعليما نظاميا يذكر، لكنه بلغ بالمطالعة الذاتية إتقان الأردية والعربية والفارسية ودراية بالإنجليزية.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} وكان يعرض شعره أول أمره على منشي جليل الله وجد بلگرامي وعلى منشي أمير الله ليصلحاه، حتى استقام أسلوبه فاستغنى عن الإصلاح.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "عمل في مهن متعددة، ثم التحق بمطبعة هندوستاني لتيج بهادور سابرو في الله آباد وحرّر مجلة «هندوستاني» الأردية سنوات طويلة.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} وكان رفيقا مقربا للشاعر جيجار مورادابادي الذي أرشده في شعره؛ ويصف وصفُ ديوانه الاثنين بأنهما أخوان في الطريقة (پير بھائی) في حلقة عبد الغني.{cite:archive-org-deewan-asghar-gondvi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الشعر",
     "markdown": "من مجموعاته «نشاط روح» و«سرود زندگي»، وبقي شعره الكامل في «كليات أصغر غوندوي»؛ ونشرت مطبعة جامعة أكسفورد سنة 2016 مختاراته بعنوان «انتخاب كلام: أصغر غوندوي». تصفه ريختا بأنه لم يكن مكثرا، بل آثر إتقان الغزل على الكتابة الغزيرة، وأن شعره يحمل فكرا ميتافيزيقيا في صوت رقيق حزين.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة الروحية",
     "markdown": "يذكر المقال الأردي أنه بايع رسميا على يد الشاه عبد الغني وظل مشبعا بروح التصوف، ويصف الديوانُ المطبوع صاحبَه بأنه مريد لحضرة عبد الغني المنغلوري. وكان شعره الأول مكتوبا تحت تأثير شعراء التصوف قبل أن يصير له صوته الخاص.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}{cite:archive-org-deewan-asghar-gondvi}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة",
     "markdown": "توفي بالشلل سنة 1936؛ يجعل المقال الإنجليزي وفاته في الله آباد، بينما يجعل صندوق معلومات المقال الأردي وفاته في غوندا.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}\n- {cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi}\n- {cite:archive-org-deewan-asghar-gondvi}"
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    "lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-10-26"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and formation",
     "markdown": "Asghar Husain was born in 1884 at Gorakhpur; his father, Munshi Tafazzal Hussain, a law officer, had moved the family to Gonda for his livelihood, and the poet was raised there, taking his pen name Gondvi from the town.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} His early education was at home and he had little formal schooling, but by private study he achieved mastery of Urdu, Arabic and Persian, and a working knowledge of English.{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} He showed his early verse for correction to Munshi Jalilullah Wajd Bulgarami and to Munshi Amirullah, until his style settled and he no longer needed correction.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "He worked at various occupations, traded in optical goods and served in the railway engineering department, before joining Tej Bahadur Sapru's Hindustani Press at Allahabad, where he edited the Urdu magazine *Hindustani* for many years.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} He was a close associate of the poet Jigar Moradabadi, who guided him in his poetry; the two were also fellow-disciples — the Diwan's description calls them pir-bhai, brothers in discipleship under Abdul Ghani.{cite:archive-org-deewan-asghar-gondvi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Poetry",
     "markdown": "His collections are *Nishat-e Rooh* and *Surood-e Zindagi*, and his complete verse survives as the *Kulliyaat Asghar Gondvi*; a selection, *Intikhab-e-Kalam: Asghar Gondvi*, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} Rekhta describes a poet who was not prolific, who worked at perfecting the ghazal rather than writing incessantly, and whose verse carries metaphysical thought in a soft, melancholic voice.{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Spiritual life",
     "markdown": "The Urdu article states that he formally took bay'ah — the oath of discipleship — at the hand of Shah Abdul Ghani and remained steeped in tasawwuf, and the published Diwan describes him as a murid (disciple) of Abdul Ghani Manglori.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}{cite:archive-org-deewan-asghar-gondvi} His early verse was written under the influence of Sufi poets before he found a voice of his own.{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died of paralysis in 1936; the English article places his death at Allahabad, while the Urdu article's infobox gives Gonda.{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}\n- {cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi}\n- {cite:archive-org-deewan-asghar-gondvi}"
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    "lang": "en",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "اصغر حسین 1884ء میں گورکھپور میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کے والد منشی تفضل حسین قانون دان تھے اور ملازمت کے سلسلے میں گونڈہ مستقل سکونت اختیار کر چکے تھے، چنانچہ شاعر کی پرورش گونڈہ میں ہوئی اور اسی نسبت سے انھیں گونڈوی کہا گیا۔{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} ابتدائی تعلیم گھر پر ہوئی اور باقاعدہ تعلیم کم ہی حاصل ہو سکی، مگر ذاتی مطالعے سے انھوں نے اردو، عربی اور فارسی میں مہارت حاصل کی اور انگریزی سے بھی واقفیت پائی۔{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} ابتداء میں وہ اپنا کلام منشی جلیل اللہ وجد بلگرامی اور منشی امیر اللہ تسلیم کو اصلاح کے لیے دکھاتے رہے، یہاں تک کہ طبیعت میں توازن اور روانی پیدا ہو گئی۔{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عملی زندگی",
     "markdown": "انھوں نے مختلف پیشے اختیار کیے، پھر الہ آباد میں تیج بہادر سپرو کے ہندوستانی پریس سے وابستہ ہو کر برسوں رسالہ «ہندوستانی» کے مدیر رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} وہ شاعر جگر مراد آبادی کے قریبی ساتھی تھے؛ دیوان کی تفصیل ان دونوں کو عبد الغنی کے حلقے میں پیر بھائی قرار دیتی ہے۔{cite:archive-org-deewan-asghar-gondvi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "شاعری",
     "markdown": "ان کے مجموعے «نشاطِ روح» اور «سرودِ زندگی» ہیں اور مکمل کلام «کلیاتِ اصغر گونڈوی» کی صورت میں دستیاب ہے؛ ان کے منتخب کلام کا مجموعہ «انتخابِ کلام: اصغر گونڈوی» 2016ء میں آکسفورڈ یونیورسٹی پریس سے شائع ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi} ریختا کے مطابق وہ کثیر گو شاعر نہ تھے؛ غزل کو نکھارنے کو انھوں نے بے دریغ لکھنے پر ترجیح دی، اور ان کے کلام میں مابعد الطبیعیاتی فکر نرم و ملول آواز میں جلوہ گر ہے۔{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "روحانی زندگی",
     "markdown": "اردو مضمون کے مطابق انھوں نے باقاعدہ طور پر شاہ عبد الغنی کے ہاتھ پر بیعت کی اور تصوف سے سرشار رہے، اور مطبوعہ دیوان کی تفصیل انھیں حضرت عبد الغنی منگلوری کا مرید بتاتی ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}{cite:archive-org-deewan-asghar-gondvi} ان کا ابتدائی کلام صوفی شعراء کے اثر میں لکھا گیا، بعد میں ان کا اپنا لہجہ بن گیا۔{cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "1936ء میں فالج سے ان کا انتقال ہوا؛ انگریزی مضمون وفات کا مقام الہ آباد بتاتا ہے جبکہ اردو مضمون کا معلوماتی خانہ گونڈہ درج کرتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}{cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}"
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    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-asghar-gondvi-ur}\n- {cite:rekhta-asghar-gondvi}\n- {cite:archive-org-deewan-asghar-gondvi}"
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