Urdu poetry, the greatest poetry in the world

I have read the poetry of many foreign countries in the world, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Latin American, etc, as well as the poetry in many Indian languages e.g. Hindi, Bangla, Tamil, Kashmiri, etc. I can venture to say that no poetry in the world expresses the voice of the human heart so powerfully, and with such sophistication ( andaaz-e-bayaan ) as Urdu poetry does. In that sense I regard Urdu poetry as the greatest poetry in the world. What a tragedy that there were, and still are, some bigoted, inane people in India who sought to suppress this great language Urdu in the land of its own birth.

Great injustice to Urdu in India

Later, agents of our British rulers, who were pursuing the divide and rule policy, e.g. Bhartendu Harishchandra, falsely propagated that Urdu was the language of Muslims, while Hindi was the language of Hindus. They also propagated that Urdu was a foreign language, which was false