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  "ar": "عبد الأحد آزاد",
  "en": "Abdul Ahad Azad",
  "ur": "عبدالاحد آزاد"
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  "ar": "شاعر ومؤرخ وناقد كشميري، وُلد باسم عبد الأحد دار في رانغار بتشادورا، يُعد أول شعراء كشمير الثوريين ومؤسس نقدها الأدبي، وصاحب «كشميري زبان اور شاعري» أول تاريخ للغة الكشميرية وشعرها في ثلاثة مجلدات.",
  "en": "Kashmiri poet, historian and literary critic, born Abdul Ahad Dar at Rangar, Chadoora; regarded as the first revolutionary poet of Kashmiri literature and the founder of its literary criticism, and author of the three-volume Kashmiri Zaban aur Shairi, the first history of the Kashmiri language and its poetry.",
  "ur": "کشمیری شاعر، مورخ اور ادبی نقاد، پیدائشی نام عبد الاحد ڈار، رنگر چاڈورہ کے رہنے والے؛ کشمیری ادب کے پہلے انقلابی شاعر اور اس کی ادبی تنقید کے بانی سمجھے جاتے ہیں، اور «کشمیری زبان اور شاعری» کے مصنف، جو کشمیری زبان و شاعری کی پہلی تاریخ ہے۔"
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   "note": "Born at Rangar village, Chadoora, in Budgam district, a son of Muhammad Sultan Dar. The English and Kashmiri articles give the year 1903; Wikidata carries 1903 and a second, rival value of 1916, preserved here and not followed, so no day is carried; a bare Gregorian year spans two Hijri years (1903 falls across 1320–1321 AH), so no hijri key is carried.",
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   "note": "Died of appendicitis at Srinagar on 4 April 1948: the English article gives the day and Wikidata agrees at day precision. The Hijri year 1367 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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   "note": "Born at Rangar village, Chadoora, in Budgam district, a son of Muhammad Sultan Dar. The English and Kashmiri articles give the year 1903; Wikidata carries 1903 and a second, rival value of 1916, preserved here and not followed, so no day is carried; a bare Gregorian year spans two Hijri years (1903 falls across 1320–1321 AH), so no hijri key is carried.",
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    "note": "No source names a school for him, and his Wikidata item carries no religion value; his madrassa schooling and his years teaching Arabic are education, which never counts. What the scholarship gives is a contested later-life reading, preserved here unclassified and FLAGGED for a founder ruling. Prem Nath Bazaz, who knew him, held that after his four-year-old son died — a death he could not attend while posted at Tral — he 'became a skeptic and a rationalist' and was, though he did not confess it even to himself, 'on way to agnosticism', and that he went on to question 'the need of religion, the infallibility of scriptures and the existence of God' (The History of Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir, 1954, pp. 299–300). His Shikwa-i-Iblis put a critique of God's existence in Satan's mouth and orthodox circles talked of a fatwa declaring him an apostate. Trilokinath Raina wrote that he 'courageously preached scientific humanism' and 'remained a Radical Marxist throughout his life' (A History of Kashmiri Literature, 2002, pp. 105–106), and Hafsa Kanjwal that he 'identified as a Marxist' (Colonizing Kashmir, 2023, p. 205). Against the atheist limb of that reading, a 2026 Kashmir Times essay warns that calling him an atheist mistakes his spiritual crisis — his quarrel was never with God but with God's gatekeepers, and his own reply to the orthodox kept a diin whose beloved 'feels delighted in unity, affection and sympathy'. Two-source attestation of unbelief is therefore not clean, and under the doubt rule the value stays unknown.",
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   "source": "English, Urdu and Kashmiri Wikipedia biographies of Abdul Ahad Azad (Q4665248) and the Wikidata item, read in full; every revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session and asserted before use, and the QID was grounded through the English article's page properties. Identity: the queue line's bearer is the revolutionary poet of Rangar, Chadoora (1903–1948), exactly the articles' man; he is not Abul Kalam Azad or Muhammad Husain Azad, who have their own records. Existence checks by name fragments (azad, ahad) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record. The queue's years (1903–1948) are confirmed. Relations written: none — his father Muhammad Sultan Dar has no person record, and no place entity exists for Chadoora, Budgam or Srinagar, so the birth and death places are carried in the date notes. His three successive pen names (Ahad, Janbaz, then Azad from 1931) follow Braj Kachru's phase analysis as reported in the English biography. Source-registration completion (wave 123 §B-fix): the scholarly sources behind the faith note's contested reading were registered as source records and verified against their own full texts, retrieved live in this session — Bazaz's reading was traced to The History of Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir (1954), pp. 299–300 (his Inside Kashmir, 1941, contains no passage on Azad at all); Raina's to A History of Kashmiri Literature (2002), pp. 105–106; Kanjwal's to Colonizing Kashmir (2023), p. 205; and the counter-reading to Rao Farman Ali's Kashmir Times essay of 14 March 2026.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "عبد الأحد دار ⁦(1903 – 4 أبريل 1948)⁩، المعروف بتخلّصه الأخير «آزاد»، شاعر ومؤرخ وناقد كشميري من قرية رانغار في تشادورا ببُدغام. تلقى تعليمه الأول في مدرسة دينية على يد أبيه محمد سلطان دار، واجتاز امتحان «منشي عالم» من جامعة البنجاب، وعمل مدرّساً حكومياً للعربية في زوهاما ثم تُرال.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-ks} يُعدّ أول شعراء كشمير الثوريين ومؤسس نقدها الأدبي، وكتابه «كشميري زبان اور شاعري» في ثلاثة مجلدات، الذي نشرته أكاديمية جامو وكشمير للفنون والثقافة واللغات بعد وفاته (1959–1963)، هو أول تاريخ للغة الكشميرية وشعرها.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}\n\nقسّم براج كاتشرو شعره إلى ثلاث مراحل بحسب تخلّصاته: شعر الحب والعبادة باسم «أحد»، وشعر الطبيعة باسم «جانباز»، ومنذ 1931 الشعر الثوري باسم «آزاد».{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en} اشتُبه في نشاطه في مقاومة 1931 فنُقل إلى مناصب نائية ودُوهم بيته، وتوفي ابنه ذو الأربع سنوات وهو مُنقَل إلى تُرال، وهي فاجعة رأى بزّاز أنها جعلته «شكّاكاً عقلانياً».{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:bazaz-history-struggle-freedom-kashmir} وقصيدته «شكوى إبليس» في ثلاثة وسبعين بيتاً، التي تضع نقداً لوجود الله على لسان إبليس، أثارت سخط الأوساط المحافظة، وصارت قصيدته «درياف» ⁦(النهر)⁩ رمز دعوته الماركسية المساواتية إلى مجتمع بلا طبقات.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:kanjwal-colonizing-kashmir} توفي بالتهاب الزائدة الدودية في سريناغار في 4 أبريل 1948.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:wikidata-abdul-ahad-azad}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Abdul Ahad Dar (1903 – 4 April 1948), known by his final pen name Azad, was a Kashmiri poet, historian and literary critic from Rangar village in Chadoora, Budgam. Educated in a madrassa by his father Muhammad Sultan Dar and qualified through the Punjab University's Munshi Alim examination, he earned his living as a government schoolteacher of Arabic, posted to Zowhama and then Tral.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-ks} He is regarded as the first revolutionary poet of Kashmiri literature and the founder of its literary criticism, and his three-volume Kashmiri Zaban aur Shairi, published posthumously by the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (1959–1963), is the first history of the Kashmiri language and its poetry.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}\n\nBraj Kachru divided his poetry into three phases, one for each pen name he adopted: the love and devotional verse of Ahad, the nature poetry of Janbaz, and from 1931 the revolutionary verse of Azad.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en} Suspected of activism in the 1931 resistance, he was transferred to remote postings and his house was raided; his four-year-old son died while he was posted at Tral, a loss Bazaz held to have made him \"a skeptic and a rationalist\".{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:bazaz-history-struggle-freedom-kashmir} His seventy-three-verse Shikwa-i-Iblis, which puts a complaint against God's existence in Satan's mouth, scandalised orthodox opinion, and his Dariyav (\"The River\") became the emblem of his egalitarian, Marxist call for a classless society.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:kanjwal-colonizing-kashmir} He died of appendicitis at Srinagar on 4 April 1948.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:wikidata-abdul-ahad-azad}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عبد الاحد ڈار (1903ء – 4 اپریل 1948ء)، جو اپنے آخری قلمی نام «آزاد» سے مشہور ہیں، بڈگام کے چاڈورہ کے گاؤں رنگر سے تعلق رکھنے والے کشمیری شاعر، مورخ اور ادبی نقاد تھے۔ انھوں نے اپنے والد محمد سلطان ڈار سے مدرسے میں تعلیم پائی، پنجاب یونیورسٹی سے منشی عالم کا امتحان پاس کیا، اور زوہامہ پھر ٹرال میں عربی کے سرکاری مدرس رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-ks} وہ کشمیری ادب کے پہلے انقلابی شاعر اور اس کی ادبی تنقید کے بانی سمجھے جاتے ہیں، اور ان کی تین جلدوں پر مشتمل «کشمیری زبان اور شاعری»، جو جموں و کشمیر اکادمی آف آرٹ، کلچر اینڈ لینگویجز نے ان کی وفات کے بعد (1959ء–1963ء) شائع کی، کشمیری زبان و شاعری کی پہلی تاریخ ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}\n\nبراج کچرو نے ان کی شاعری کو تین ادوار میں تقسیم کیا، ہر دور ان کے ایک تخلص سے منسوب: «احد» کی عشقیہ و عبادتی شاعری، «جانباز» کی فطرتی شاعری، اور 1931ء سے «آزاد» کی انقلابی شاعری۔{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en} 1931ء کی مزاحمت میں سرگرمی کے شبے میں انھیں دور دراز مقامات پر منتقل کیا گیا اور ان کے گھر پر چھاپہ پڑا؛ ان کا چار سالہ بیٹا اس وقت فوت ہوا جب وہ ٹرال میں تعینات تھے — بزاز کے مطابق یہی حادثہ انھیں «ایک شکی، ایک عقلیت پسند» بنا گیا۔{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:bazaz-history-struggle-freedom-kashmir} ان کی تہتر اشعار پر مشتمل «شکوىٰ ابلیس»، جو خدا کے وجود پر نقد ابلیس کی زبان سے پیش کرتی ہے، نے رجعت پسند حلقوں کو برہم کیا، اور «دریاؤ» ان کی مساوات پسند، مارکسی دعوت کی علامت بنی۔{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:kanjwal-colonizing-kashmir} وہ 4 اپریل 1948ء کو سرینگر میں اپینڈکس کے عارضے سے انتقال کر گئے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdul-ahad-azad-en}{cite:wikidata-abdul-ahad-azad}"
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