Musaddas is considered a poem which infused new life in a dead Quom; It caused Sir Syed to remark, If Allah asks me what I have brought from the world, I will say that I brought Musaddas from the pen of Hali. Hali’s dirge for the Muslims of India who, by the end of the nineteenth century, had become a rudderless Quom, is required reading for all those who wish to understand the underlying spirit of Islam, especially today when Islam has become a great enigma ...
