Background
Abdul Halim Sharar was born in Lucknow in 1860.
Abdul Halim Sharar was born in Lucknow in 1860.
Sharar was educated at home where he learnt Arabic and Persian.
He left behind, in all, hundred and two books He often wrote about the Islamic past and extolled virtues like courage, bravery, magnanimity and religious fervour. Malikul Azia Vārjina (1889), (1899), Zawāl-e-Baghdad (1912), Husn kā Daku (1913–1914), Darbar-e-Harampur (1914) and Fateh Maftūh (1916) are some of his famous novels.
His book is still considered as one of the best narrative describing the genesis of the city and its culture of Lucknow.
His father Hakim Tafazzul Husain was a scholar of Islamic religion and Persian literature. He started learning Greek medicine system but did not finish lieutenant
انار کلی was his fantasy which he writes that he created this character to show or to imagine how it would look like in Akbar the Great"s time. He admits this to be fantasy on the very first page.
The Text Book Board of Punjab Pakistan published the book for 12th grade students and they give this to be on very first lines.
انار کلی اور شہزادہ سلیم کی کہانی علامہ عبد الحلیم شرر نے لکھی تھی تاکہ اس بات کو سمجھا جا سکے کہ ان دنوں میں حرم سراء کیسے ہوتے ہونگے۔ This makes it clear that the Story of Anarkali is pure fantasy.