poet Mus’hafi, writing in Lucknow in 1780,8 who called the language ‘Urdu’ for the first time in writing: Khudā rakhe zubāN hamne sunī hai Mīr-o-Mirzā kī KahīN kisī mūNh se ham, e Mushāfī, Urdū hamārī hai. May God preserve this language that I first heard somehow From the mouth of Mir Taqi Mir and Mirza Sauda, oh Mus’hafi! Urdu belongs to all of us!
