LOIQ ShERALI (takhalusash «Loiq») shoiri barjastai tojik. Loiq sanai 20.5.1941 dar dehai Mazori Sharifi nohiyai Panjakent tavallud shuda sanai 30-yumi iyuni 2000-um sol dar sh. Dushanbe vafot kard va uro dar oromgohi Luchob dafn kardand.
Loiq Sherali az oilai dehqon bud. Azoi hizbi partiyai komunisti az soli 1972 bud. Instituti davlatii pedagogii ba nomi T. G. Shevchenko shahri Dushanbero soli 1961 khatm kard. Muharriri shubai musiqi, adabi va dramavii Komiteti radio va televizion (1963—65), khodimi adabii gazetai «Komsomol» Tojikiston» (1965-66), mudiri shubai nazmi jurnali «Sadoi Sharq» (1907—75) bud. Az soli 1975 mushoviri adabii IN Tojikiston.
Az soli 1979 kotibi Rayosati IN Tojikiston va sarmuharriri jurnali «Sadoi Sharq». Majmuai avvalinash — «Sari sabz» (1960). Sipas ashori Loiq dar kitobi sherhoi «Ilhom» (1968) va «Nushbod» (1971), «Tashnadil» (1974, ba hurufoti arabi) ba tab rasid. Kitobi «Sohplho» (1972) silsilai ruboiyoti «Jomi Khayyom» va digar sherhoi Loiqro darbar megirad. Inson maqomu etibori u, munosibati shakhs va jamiyat, hayot va marg va digar masalahoi, muhimi zindagi mavzui asosii ruboiyoti ust. Ruboiyoti Loiq Sherali ba inkishofi janri ruboi dar nazmi muosiri tojik musoidat kard.
Loiq dar vasfi modar yak silsila sherhoi margube navisht, ki bo nomi «Modarnoma» mashhurand. Dar kitobi Loiq «Khoki Vatan» (1975) tasviri khiradi khalq, obu khoki Vatan va muborizavu jonfishonihoi farzandoni buzurgi on maqomi kalon dorad. Loiq ba tarikhi manavii guzashtai khalq tavajjuhi ziyode zohir menamoyad. Silsilai «Ilhom az «Shohnoma», «Rezaboron» va digar sherhoi solhoi okhiri Loiq dar kitobi «Mardi roh» (1978) gird ovarda shudaand.
Sheru nazmhoi Loiq Sherali khelo ziyod baroi mardum pisan dast va bakhusus saroyandagoni mashhuri tojik ba misoli Jurabaek Murodov, Bohodur Nematov, Karomatullo Qurbonov, Sadriddin Najmiddin, Hasan Haydar va digaron az ashori in shoiri buzurg istifoda mebarand.
Loiq shoiri zamoni navi tojikon buda, ashorash mazmuni balandi ijtimoi va falsafi dorad. Se kitobi sherhoi u ba zaboni rusi nashr gardid: «Ulibka zari» («Shafaqi subh», D., 1969), «Zaveshannaya zemlya» («Zamini merosi», M., 1971), «Struni dojdya» («Simi boron», M., 1978). Sherhoi Loiq ba zabonhoi khoriji tarjuma shudaand. Loiq dar tarjuma niz ishtirok dosht: «Savthoi forsi»-i S. Esenii, qisme az «Devoni garbu-sharqi»-i Gyote, «Tiru kamon»-i S. Kaputikyai, «Andeshahoi roh»-i E. Mejelaytps, «Shamsheri khudo»-i D. Kuliev, «Gulafshon»-i S. Esenii (hamrohi Bozor Sobir), kitobi ocherkhoi navisandai bulgor Yordan Milov «Diyori domani gardun», pesai manzumi G. Ptisin «Khusravu Shirin», sherhoi M. Svetlov, R. Gamzatov, E. Evtushenko va digaronro bayni solhoi 1965—80 ba tojiki tarjuma kardaast.
Loiq bo medali «Baroi mehnati shujoatnok. Ba munosibati 100-solagii ruzi tavalludi V. I. Lenin» mukofotonida shudaast. Laureati Mukofoti davlatii Tojikiston ba nomi Rudaki (1978).
Ba gufti mardum in Shoiri buzurg khususiyati rostgui dosht va ba siyosatmadoron chandon hamfikr nabud va az in lihoz nisbati onon yagon sheri khudro nabakhshidaast. Loiq dar mushkilihoi okhiri hayotash ki az bemori tajassum meyoft az dushmanoni khud medid, ki yake az on shoir “Askar Hakim” budaast.