1.              Dr. Farman Fatah Puri, Urdu Ki Manzoom Dastanein (Karachi: Anjuman-e-Taraqi-e-Urdu Pakistan, 2002), 13.

2.             Maulana Shibli Naumani, Shair-ul-Ajam, Vol. 4 (Azamgarh: Matba Ma'arif, 1923), 247.

3.              Dr. Farman Fatah Puri, Urdu Ki Behtareen Masnaviyan (Lahore: Al-Waqar Publications, 2021), 8.

4.              Ibid, 7.

5.              Maulana Shibli Naumani, Sher-ul-Ajam, Vol. 4, 247.

6.             Dr. Farman Fatah Puri, Urdu Ki Behtareen Masnaviyan, 18.

7.             Ibid, 20.

8.             Ibid, 22.

9.             Ibid, 69.

10.          Ibid, 114-115.

11.           Ibid, 131.

12.           Abul Lais Siddiqi, Lucknow Ka Dabistan-e-Shairi (Lahore: Matbu'a Urdu Markaz, s.n.), 50.

13.           Ram Babu Saxena, Tareekh-e-Adab-e-Urdu (Lucknow: Matba-e-Naul Kishore, s.n.), 10.

14.           Dr. Farman Fatah Puri, Urdu Shairi Ka Fanni Irtiqa (Delhi: M.N., 2004), 3.

15.           Ibid, 197.

16.           Dr. Farman Fatah Puri, Urdu Ki Behtareen Masnaviyan, 142.

17.           Dr. Farman Fatah Puri, Nawab Mirza Shauq Ki Masnaviyan (Naaqis-ul-Tarfain), Dibacha, 2.

18.            Khwaja Ahmad Farooqi, "Dibacha," In: Mirza Shauq Lucknowi (Lucknow: Matbu'a Nigar Book Agency, 1950), 2.

19.            Ishrat Rahmani (Editor), Taaruf Zehr-e-Ishq (Naqis-ul-Awwal), 10.

20.            Abul Lais Siddiqi, Lucknow Ka Dabistan-e-Shairi, 554.

21.             Majnoon Gorakhpuri (Editor), Zehr-e-Ishq (Naqis-ul-Awwal), 110.