Top 10 Great Shayar.

1.Mir Taqi Mir. 

Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723 –1810), was a Urdu artist of the eighteenth century Mughal India, and one of the pioneers who offered shape to the Urdu language itself. 

He was one of the essential artists of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal and is regularly recognized as probably the best writer of the Urdu language. 

His takhallus was Mir. He spent the last piece of his life in the court of Asaf-ud-Daulah in Lucknow.

2.Mohammad Imran Pratapgarhi.

Mohammad Imran Pratapgarhi is an Indian Urdu-language poet known for his dissent verse that particularizes the Muslim experience and personality in India and different pieces of the world; Pratapgarhi is known for his Urdu nazms, particularly "Madrasa," and "Han Main Kashmir Hoon." 

Pratapgarshi was a losing competitor in the 2019 Indian general political race as an Indian National Congress applicant from Moradabad.

3.Shams Tabrizi.

Shams I-Tabrizi or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian writer, who is credited as the profound educator of Mewlana Jalal advertisement Din Muhammad Balkhi, otherwise called Rumi and is referred to with incredible veneration in Rumi's wonderful assortment, specifically Diwan-I Shams-I Tabrizi (The Works of Shams of Tabriz). Custom holds that Shams showed Rumi in separation in Konya for a time of forty days, prior to escaping for Damascus. The burial chamber of Shams-I Tabrizi was as of late designated to be an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

4.Imam Baksh Nasikh.

Imam Baksh Nasikh prevailing with regards to picking up the support of Meer Kazim Ali whose property he inherited.Nasikh who outraged the nawab of Awadh by disdainfully rejecting his support was driven out from Lucknow. Nasikh at long last got back from oust after the passing of Hakim Mehdi in 1837. He passed on in the year 1838.

5.Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish.

Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish , (1777–1846) of Lucknow was a Urdu writer. Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one of the monsters of Urdu writing. Aatish and Imam Baksh Nasikh were contemporary artists whose contention is notable. Both had several pupils. The period of Aatish-Nasikh was a brilliant time for Urdu verse in Lucknow. Aatish is generally known for his ghazals, and for his astonishing and diverse style of poetry۔

6.Ghalib.

Ghalib, conceived Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (December 1797 – 15 February 1869), was a noticeable Urdu and Persian writer during the most recent long periods of the Mughal Empire. He utilized his nom de plumes of Ghalib and Asad. His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula. During his lifetime, the previously declining Mughal realm was obscured and dislodged by the Colonial British Raj lastly ousted after the destruction of the Indian defiance of 1857, are a portion of the functions that he depicted through his work. 

Most prominently, he wrote in both Urdu and Persian. His Persian Divan is in any event multiple times longer than his Urdu however his distinction lays on his verse in Urdu.

Today, Ghalib stays well known in India and Pakistan as well as among the Indian diaspora around the globe.

7. muhammad Ibrahim Zauq.

Sheik Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq (1790–1854) was a Urdu writer and researcher of writing, verse and religion. He composed verse under pen name "Zauq", and was named writer laureate of the Mughal Court in Delhi exactly at 19 years old. Later he was given the title of Khaqani-e-Hind (The Khaqani of India) by the last Mughal sovereign and his supporter Bahadur Shah Zafar.

He was a helpless youth, with just normal instruction, who proceeded to get learning ever, religious philosophy and poetics in his later years. Zauq was an unmistakable contemporary of Ghalib and throughout the entire existence of Urdu verse the contention of the two writers is very notable. During his lifetime Zauq was more well known than Ghalib for the basic qualities in those days were mostly bound to making a decision about a bit of verse based on use of words, expressions and sayings. Substance and style were very little considered while acknowledging verse.

8.Muhammad Iqbal.

Muhammad Iqbal 9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a Muslim writer, scholar and legislator from Punjab, British India (presently in Pakistan), whose verse in Urdu and Persian is viewed as among the best of the cutting edge era, and whose vision of an autonomous state for the Muslims of British India was to motivate the making of Pakistan. He is ordinarily alluded to as Allama Iqbal.

Subsequent to concentrating in England and Germany, Iqbal set up a law practice, however focused principally on composing insightful deals with legislative issues, financial matters, history, theory and religion. He is most popular for his idyllic works, including Asrar-e-Khudi—which brought a knighthood—Rumuz-e-Bekhudi, and the Bang-e-Dara. In Iran, where he is known as Iqbal-e Lahori (‎ Iqbal of Lahore), he is profoundly respected for his Persian works.

Iqbal was a solid advocate of the political and otherworldly recovery of Islamic civilisation over the world, however explicitly in India; a progression of popular talks he conveyed with this impact were distributed as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. One of the most unmistakable heads of the All India Muslim League, Iqbal empowered the formation of a "state in northwestern India for Indian Muslims" in his 1930 official location. Iqbal empowered and worked intimately with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and he is known as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-e-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah"). He is authoritatively perceived as the "public writer" in Pakistan. The commemoration of his introduction to the world on 9 November is an occasion in Pakistan.

9.Josh Malihabadi.   

Josh Malihabadi(born as Shabbir Hasan Khan(5 December 1898 – 22 February 1982) famously known as Shayar-e-Inqalab (artist of insurgency) is viewed as one of the best Urdu poet of the period of British India. Josh consistently tested the set up request and represented liberal qualities. He was noisy, valiant who never settled on standards. He composed more than 100,000 lovely couplets and more than 1,000 rubaiyat in the course of his life. His self-portrayal "Yaadon ki Barat" is viewed as extraordinary compared to other so far in Urdu as it is written in honest and genuine way. 

The principal Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru held him in high regard and barely botched an opportunity to go to the mushaira at Lala Kishan Lal Kalra's United Coffee House where Josh used to be the star fascination. He was an Indian resident until 1956, when he emigrated to Pakistan and turned into a Pakistani resident. A portion of his works were meant English like The Unity of Mankind requiems by Josh Malihabadi by Syed Akbar Pasha Tirmizi who was a Pakistani resident and a high court advocate.

10.Raghupati Sahay.

Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), better known under his nom de plume Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an essayist, pundit, and, as indicated by one reporter, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu writers from India.He set up himself among peers including Muhammad Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi and Josh Malihabadi.