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Bekhud Badayuni | |
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| Born | Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui 17 September 1857 Badayun, North-Western Provinces, British India |
| Died | 10 November 1912 (aged 55) Badayun, United Provinces, British India |
| Pen name | Bekhud Badayuni |
| Occupation | Poet, lawyer |
| Period | Post-Mughal-era |
| Genre | Ghazal, Hamd, Na`at, Ruba'i |
| Subject | Love, philosophy, mysticism, Islam |
Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui (1857–1912), writing under the pen-name Bekhud Badayuni, was one of the leading Urdu poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in India. It is customary for Urdu poets to assume a pen-name (takhallus) that can be employed as a pun in the final couplet of every ghazal, often combined with a second name that denotes the poet's place of origin. In this case, "Bekhud", the pen-name means beside oneself (with joy or grief), out of one's mind; in ecstasy, transported, enraptured, intoxicated; senseless, delirious,[1] commonly used in the context of spiritual ecstasy, and is paired with "Badayuni", which indicates ties to the city of Badayun.
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884), A Dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W.H. Allen & Co.[failed verification]