Momin Khan Momin

Life Momin Khan 'Momin' was born in 1800 in Delhi into a Muslim family of Kashmiri origin. His father, Ghulam Nabi Khan, was a Hakeem (physician of traditional/Unani medicine). Momin Khan received training in the family profession from a young age and himself became a hakim, due to which he is often referred to in contemporary accounts as "Hakeem Khan," Hakeem being the Urdu word for physician.

Death Momin died after accidentally falling from the roof of his house on 24 Rajab 1268 Hijri (14 May 1852) at the age of 52.

Momin was something of a polymath, with several interests apart from medicine and poetry. Poetry was not something he needed to earn his living.

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One of his very famous ghazals starts with the following matla (the first line of the opening couplet of a ghazal).