Career
Nazmi was the first translator of Shakespeare"s King Lear into Azerbaijani. Nazmi"s first poem A Start to the Village was published in 1904. In 1926-1931 Nazmi was a secretary of Molla Nasraddin magazine.
During the Soviet-German War he wrote several satires: Hitler"s Union with Devil, Wolf"s Protest Against God, My Homeland and others
Nazmi strived for the purity of Azerbaijani language against Pan-Turkists and Panislamists.