NAAT is an Arabic word and it means, literally, praise. In Urdu, naat means the praise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). A poem with praise of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is also called naat in Urdu.

In his editorial titled ‘Naat aur Urdu ki she’ari tehzeeb’ Mirza sahib stresses that “in the past, in literary and critical discussions though naat did come under review, the trend was ...

Hamd and naat are two rich genres of poetry in which a poet praises God Almight and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) respectively. Urdu language had the greatest corpus of naat, Arif said. He added that ...