Elegiac elements in Iftikhar Arif's poetry

افتخار عارف کی شاعری میں رثائی عناصر

Abstract

Iftikhar Arif's poetry shows a progressive and romantic mood, his religious poetry also gives a distinct identity in the contemporary poetic tradition. Apart from Hamd, naats, he has maintained his individuality by writing Marsia, Salam and Manqbat. Is. In his lament poetry, along with devotion and respect for the Ahl al-Bayt, there are elements of freedom thought to a great extent.