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Altaf Hussain Hali
Urdu poet
Altaf Hussain Hali (Urdu: الطاف حسین حاؔلی – Alṭāf Ḥusain Ḥālī; 1837 – 31 December 1914), also known as MaulanaKhawaja Hali, was an Urdu poet and writer.[1][3]
Early life
He was born in Panipat to Khwaja Ezad Baksh and was a descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari.[4] He belonged to the Panipat Ansari clan,[5] whose members included Lutfullah Khan Sadiq, the Diwan-i-Khalisa and governor of Shahjahanabad in the Mughal empire, and Sher Afkan Panipati, the governor of Multan.[6][7] Hali's father died when he was nine years old and his mother suffered from dementia.
He was in the care of his elder brother Khwaja Imdad Husain after the death of his parents and when he was fifteen, upon the forcing of the elder brother, married his cousin Islam-un-Nisa.[8] Hali studied, and memorized, the Quran under Hafiz Mumtaz Husain, Arabic under Haji Ibrahim Husain and Persian under Syed Jafar A