Siddiq Ismail

Siddiq Ismail (born 10 February 1954 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a globally renowned Hamd and Na`at reciter of Pakistan for his 50 years of service in the field of religious Hamd and Na`at recitation on Pakistan Television and Radio Pakistan.

Career

He belongs to the Memon community. His parents migrated from India to Pakistan in 1947 after the partition of British India. He started his career at the age of 6 at a local 'Masjid Badami' situated at Old Town, Karachi. He suffered from the polio disease at an early age and became physically handicapped in his legs . In 1960, He joined Radio Pakistan Program Bachon ki Dunya. It was the first program he participated in as a child. Since then he has been selected regularly for Hamd-Naat recitation on various radio and TV shows in Pakistan.

He is among those who participated in the maiden transmission of Pakistan Television – Karachi Center in 1969.^[1] He was given responsibility to recite Hamd and Naat at its first live transmission. In his professional career, he has been given the title 'King of Recitation' by his affectionate followers in Pakistan.

He is a living legend representing soft and positive image of Pakistan with melodious recitation of religious Naats and Hamds. He is a widely respected figure and is invited to most socio-religious TV events and shows in the country and abroad.^[2]

He has recited thousands of Hamds and Naats in different spoken languages, written and understood in Pakistan including Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Punjabi, Hindi, Saraiki, Sindhi, Pashto, Purbi and other local languages.

His career is enriched with achievements and awards internationally and nationally including being on the list of '500 Influential Muslims'.^[3]

He was included among 100 Top Muslim Vocalists list at the 7th rank by Independent Muslim Trust, South Africa, in 1980.

The Government of Pakistan had conferred upon Siddiq Ismail (Naat Khawan) the Sitara-i-Imtiaz award among a list of many other people that also would be awarded their own awards for the year 2012.^[4]

He was also awarded the Pride of Performance in 1985 by the President of Pakistan.^[5]

Famous Hamd / Naats

La Illaha Illallah haq La Ilaha IllAllah
Allahuma Sale Ala Syeddna Wa Moulana Mohammadin
Madinay Ka Safar Hai
Noori Mehfil Pe Chadar
Chamak Tujh se Paatay^[6]
Mujhko Taiba Mai Bula lo
Sab se Ala O Ala Hamara Nabi
Haqiqat mai who Lutfe Zindagi
Jisay Chaha dar pe bula liya
Meri Arzo Mohammed Meri Justugo Madina
Mustafa Jaan e Rehmat pe Lakhon Salam
Zameeno o Zamman tumhare liye
Ya RasoolAllah Tere dar ki fizaon ko Salam
Yai Naat e Mustafa Ka Moajaza ha
Dua hai zindagani yun basar ho

Awards and recognition

Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 2012^[7]
Pride of Performance in 1985^[5]
Radio Pakistan 20 Years Melody Excellence Award

Books

Anwaar-e-Harmain
Rang-e-Raza

References

↑ "Siddiq Ismail". Saeen.net. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2016. , Profile of Siddiq Ismail on saeen.net website, Retrieved 18 April 2016
↑ "URDU NAAT(Noori Mehfil Pe Chadar)SIDDIQ ISMAIL IN MIRAJ NIGHT QTV.BY Visaal". YouTube. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
↑ "Ismail, Al-Hajj Siddiq PROFILE". The Muslim 500. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
↑ , Dawn,Karachi newspaper,14 August 2012, Retrieved 18 April 2016
1 2 http://hamariweb.com/islam/siddiq_ismail_naats_nc14.aspx, Siddiq Ismail Pride of Performance Award info on hamariweb.com website, Retrieved 18 April 2016
↑ http://www.umuslim.com/category/naats/siddiq-ismail/#, Siddiq Ismail video performances on umuslim.com website, Retrieved 18 April 2016
↑ http://www.brecorder.com/general-news/172:pakistan/1166638:list-of-civil-awards/?date=2013-03-23, Siddiq Ismail receives Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award for 2012 on Business Recorder newspaper, Retrieved 18 April 2016

External links

"Siddiq Ismail New Naats, Latest 2015 Online & Download Famous Audio MP3 Naat of Siddiq Ismail". hamariweb.com. Retrieved 18 April 2016. , Profile of Siddiq Ismail on hamariweb.com website, Retrieved 18 April 2016
"Al-Haaj Siddiq Ismail". Alahazrat.net. Retrieved 18 April 2016. , List of Siddiq Ismail available audios

Civil decorations of Pakistan
Nishaan (Order)	Order of Pakistan Order of Bravery Order of Excellence Order of Great Leader Order of Service
Hilal (Crescent)	Crescent of Pakistan Crescent of Bravery Crescent of Excellence Crescent of Great Leader Crescent of Service
Sitara (Star)	Star of Pakistan Star of Bravery Star of Excellence Star of the Great Leader Star of Service
Tamgha (Medal)	Medal of Pakistan Medal of Bravery Medal of Excellence Medal of the Great Leader Medal of Service
Others	Pride of Performance Children Literature Award Abdus Salam Award Medal of the Great Leader
τ Military awards

Pride of Performance for Arts
1958–1959	Abdur Rehman Chughtai (1958) Zainul Abedin (1958) Hafeez Jalandhri (1958)
1960–1969	Roshan Ara Begum (1960) Sadequain (1962) Mehdi Ali Mirza (1962) Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (1962) Ustad Allahbaksh (1963) Noor Jehan (1965) A.S.M. Qamarul Hasan (1965) Zubaida Agha (1965) Ferdausi Begum (1965) Sharif Khan Poonchwaley (1965) Imtiaz Ali Taj (1965) Shakir Ali (1966) Khwaja Moinuddin (1966) Ayat Ali Khan (1966) Ustad Haji Mohammad Sharif (1967) Ustad Munshi Raziuddin (1967) Rafi Peer (1967) Ali Imam (1968) Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (1968) Ustad Amanat Ali Khan (1969) Bade Fateh Ali Khan (1969) Leila Arjumand Banu (1969) Umeed Ali Khan (1969) Mohammad Kibria (1969)
1970–1979	Ismail Gulgee (1970) Farida Khanum (1970) Abul Qasim Mohammad Moslehuddin (1970) Naheed Niazi (1970) Maqbool Ahmed Sabri (1970) Ustad Gul Mohammad Khan (1971) Munir Sarhadi (1978) Ahmed Pervez (1978) Iqbal Bano (1978) Ustad Manzoor Ali Khan (1978) Ghulam Farid Sabri (1978) Ibn-e-Insha (1978) Faiz Mohammad Baloch (1979) Anna Molka Ahmed (1979) Khamiso Khan (1979) Kishwar Sultan (1979) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Sitar Nawaz) (1979) Ghulam Ali (1979) Alam Lohar (1979) Mureed Buledi (1979) Misri Khan Jamali (1979) Pathane Khan (1979) Mohammad Azam Chishti (1979) Ashfaq Ahmed (1979)
1980-1989	Mohammad Qavi Khan (1980) Ustad Khyal Muhammad (1980) Allan Faqir (1980) Sohail Rana (1980) Aazar Zubi (1980) Malika Pukhraj (1980) Muhammad Juman (1980) Nasir Jehan (1981) Mansoor Tabish (1981) Qari Syed Ali Sharfuddin Yemni (1981) Nanhe Ali Khan (music performer))(1981) Roohi Bano (1981) Alexander Robert (1981) Mai Bhagi (1981) Uzma Gillani (1982) Qari Ubaidur Rehman (1982) Talat Hussain (1982) Tufail Niazi (1982) Reshma (1982) Arsh Muneer (1983) Ustad Nazar Hussain (1983) Atta Shad (1983) Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi (1984) Begum Khursheed Mirza (1984) Abida Parveen (1984) Mohammad Ali (1984) Syed Anwar Hussain, Nafees Raqam (1985) Ustad Chhote Ghulam Ali Khan (1985) Bundu Khan (1985) Mehdi Hasan (1985) Qari Ghulam Rasool (1985) Siddiq Ismail (1985) Abid Ali (1985) Syed Mehmood Ali (1985) Sabiha Khanum (1986) Shahzad Khalil (1986) Suraiya Multanikar (1986) Firdous Jamal (1986) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1986) Azhar Lodhi (1986) Ustad Abdul Majeed Dehlvi (1987) Haseena Moin (1987) Aadil Salahuddin (1987) Ghulam Hassan Shaggan (1987) Sain Akhtar Hussain (1987) Qari Izhar Ahmed Thanvi (1987) Shaista Zaid (1988) Mustafa Qureshi (1988) Muzaffar Warsi (1988) Ustad Kabir Khan (1989) Ghulam Ahmed Chishti (1989) Musarrat Nazir (1989) Shafi Mohammad Shah (1989) Kamal Ahmed Rizvi (1989) Jameel Bismil (1989) Bushra Ansari (1989) Ameer Khan (1989) Amjad Hussain (1989) Ustad Salamat Ali Khan (1989) Aziz Mian (1989) Agha Talish (1989) Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak (1989) Mian Shaukat Hussain (1989)
1990-1999	Salim Nasir (1990) Daud Kamal (1990) Khalid Hameed (1990) Shaukat Ali (1990) Ustad Sadiq Ali Khan Mando (1990) Ustad Hamid Ali Khan (1990) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (1990) Mushtaq Gazdar (1990) * Ahmed Saeed Nagi (1990) Qari Mohammad Fida (1990) Iftikhar Arif (1990) Khursheed Alam known as Gohar Qalam (1991) Khayyam Sarhadi (1991) Attaullah Khan Essa Khailwi (1991) Ata ul Haq Qasmi (1991) Nayyar Ali Dada (1992) Shakeel (Yousuf Kamal) (1992) Noor Mohammad Lashari (1992) Tariq Aziz (1992) Mustansar Hussain Tarar (1992) Pervez Malik (1992) Jawed Iqbal (1992) Mian Ijazul Hasan (1992) Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman (1992) Munir Niazi (1992) Naseem Hijazi (1992) Ismail Shahid (1993) Ali Ejaz (1993) S.H. Hashmi (1993) Syed Manzoorul Kaunain (1993) Qari Syed Buzurg Shah Al-Azhari (1993) Agha Nasir (1993) Farooq Qaiser (1993) Bashir Mirza (1994) Ahmad Bashir (1994) Shahid Jalal (1994) Qari Mohammad Younus (1994) Qari Syed Ali Abid Naqvi (1994) Nisar Bazmi (1994) Hamid Ali Bela (1994) Zareena Baloch (1994) Naheed Siddiqui (1994) Shujaat Hashmi (1994) Qateel Shifai (1994) Allah Rakha (sarangi) (1995) Ustad Talib Hussain Khan (1995) Colin David (1995) Shoaib Hashmi (1995) Begum Khursheed Shahid (1995) Khursheed Ahmad (1995) Laila Shahzada (1995) Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla (1996) Mashooq Sultan (1996) Safeerullah Lehri (1996) Qari Noor Mohammad (1996) Fatima Surayya Bajia (1996) Sehba Akhtar (1996) Nadeem Baig (1997) Abdul Hameed (1997) Mumtaz Mirza (1998) Dilawar Figar (1999) Salima Hashmi (1999) Anwar Masood (1999) Anita Ghulam Ali (1999)
2000-2009	Jamil Fakhri (2002) Nazia Hassan (2002) Askari Mian Irani (2002) Himayat Ali Shair (2002) Shoaib Mansoor (2002) Iftikhar Ahmad (2003) Syed Afzal Hussain (2003) Syed Munawwar Saeed (2003) Abdul Aziz Baloch (2003) Ghulam Mustafa (2003) Majeed Khan (2003) Moneeza Hashmi (2003) Muhammad Ali Siddiqui (2003) Yousuf Khan (actor) (2004) Mahtab Akbar Rashdi (2004) Chishty Bin Subh-o-Mujahid (2004) Navid Shahzad (2004) Salahuddin Toofani (2004) S. M. Naqi (2004) Haji Atta Muhammad (2004) Moin Niazi (2004) Shahida Parveen (2004) Tina Sani (2004) Niaz Ahmed (2004) Samiur Rahman (2004) Arfa Karim (2005) Rais Khan (2005) Arif Lohar (2005) Saeed Khan Rangeela (2005) Shafqat Tanvir Mirza (2005) Muhammad Mansha Yaad (2005) Shabnam Shakeel (2005) Tassawar Khanum (2005) Abdul Rauf Rufi (2005) Ustad Badar uz Zaman (2006) Ustad Qamar uz Zaman (2006) Zehra Nigah (2006) Naheed Akhtar (2007) Shaan (2007) Asad Amanat Ali Khan (2007) Hamid Ali Khan (2007) Faakhir Mehmood (2007) Munnu Bhai (2007) Allah Bukhsh (2008) Munni Begum (2008) Akhtar Munir (2008) Gopal Das (2008) Haji Mehr Ali (2008) Haji Sher Ali (2008) Nahid Raza (2008) Gul Bahar Bano (2008) Mujahid Hussain (2008) Late Rasheed Malik (2008) Sultana Siddiqui (2008) Abdul Karim Balouch (2008) Abdul Qadir Junejo (2008) M. Hanif Raza (2008) Nasreen Askari (2008) Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan (2008) Mansoor Rahi (2008) Tari Khan (2008) Rasheed Naz (2009) Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan (2009) Muhammad Younus Khan (2009) Emanuel Philip (2009) Rehana Siddiqui (2009) Shabbir Hussain (2009) Manzoor Hussain (2009) Parveen Nazzar (2009) Javaid Tufail Niazi (2009) Babar Ali Niazi (2009) Hajra Mansoor (2009) Behroze Sabzwari (2009) Obaidullah Baig (2009) Khalifa Muhammad Irshad Beg (2009)* Naseem Sultan (2009) Ghous Bux Brohi (2009) Sahib Dino Mallah (2009) Satish Chandra Anand (2009) Rubeena Malik (2009) Badar Munir (2009) Muhammad Gul (2009) Mehnaz Hyat (2009) Abdul Qadir (2009) Ghayyur Akhtar (2009)
2010-Present	Masarrat Misbah (2010) Rabia Zuberi (2010) Zulfiqar Ali (2010) Habib-ur-Rehman (2011) Khan Tehsil (2011) Abdul Rahim Nagori (2011) S. Amjad Bukhari (2011) S. B. John (2011) S.H. Qasim Jalali (2011) Samina Ahmad (2011) Sohail Ahmed (2011) Ustad Hussain Bukhsh Gullu (2011) Khalid Ahmad (2011) Ustad Muhammad Alam (2011) Ustad Sharafat Ali Khan (Late) (2011) Wazir Afzal (2011) Zafar Kazmi (Late) (2011) Moin Akhter (2011) Saira Kazmi (2012) Mohsin Gillani (2012) Noman Ijaz (2012) Saba Hameed (2012) Javed Sheikh (2012) Meera (2012) Rahat Naveed Masud (2012) Lutfullah Khan (2012) Tahira Syed (2013) Muhammad Ajmal Khan (2013) Alamgir (2013) Shahida Mini (2013) Naghma (2013) Shahid Abdullah (2014) Ustad Shafiquz Zaman Khan (2014) Aurangzeb Leghari (2014) Ayub Khawar (2014)

Naat Khawans
Shamshad Begum Mubarak Begum Muhammad Rafi Lata Mangeshkar Junaid Jamshed Muhammad Farooq Mushtaq Qadri Muhammad Owais Raza Qadri Naeem Hashmi Mehdi Hassan Siddiq Ismail Zubaida Khanum Saleem Raza (Pakistani singer) Muzaffar Warsi Iqbal Bahu Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi Abdul Rauf Rufi Syed Fasihuddin Soharwardy Khurshid Ahmad Tasleem Ahmed Sabri
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