Beginning of Calligraphy
He wrote famous poems of Allama Iqbal "LalLaHa ILLALLAH" on front page of the first issue of Daily Insaf. The first book he inscribed was Rehmat ul Lil Alameen on the life of the Prophet. He served daily Nawa-i-waqt as head calligrapher from 1952 to 1956. He then worked as freelance calligrapher with office at Chattan Building Lahore up to 1970. Daily papers of repute used to have head lines written by Shah Sahib. He trained hundreds of pupils in the art of calligraphy. He used to train pupils firstly in Khat-t-Nasakh so that more and more calligraphers could learn to inscribe Quraan sharif. He restricted himself to writing titles preferably in Nastaliq Genre. Nevertheless he was equally good as a master of other genres like Thuluth, Naskh, Diwani, Riqa and Kufic.
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