Urdu Poetry Ghazals

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The ghazal (Arabic/Pashto/Malay/Persian/Urdu: غزل‎; Hindi: ग़ज़ल, Marathi: गझल Punjabi: ਗ਼ਜ਼ਲ, Nepali: गजल, Turkish: gazel, Bengali: গ়জ়ল, Gujarati: ગ઼ઝલ) is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in 6th-century Arabic verse. It is derived from the Arabian panegyric qasida. The structural requirements of the ghazal are similar in stringency to those of the Petrarchan sonnet. In style and content it is a genre that has proved capable of an extraordinary variety of expression around its central themes of love and separation. It is one of the principal poetic forms which the Indo-Perso-Arabic civilization offered to the eastern Islamic world.

The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century due to the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Islamic Sultanate. Although the ghazal is most prominently a form of Dari poetry and Urdu poetry, today it is found in the poetry of many languages of the Indian sub-continent.

Ghazals were written by the Persian mystics and poets Rumi (13th century) and Hafiz (14th century), the Azeri poet Fuzûlî (16th century), as well as Mirza Ghalib (1797–1869) and Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), both of whom wrote ghazals in Persian and Urdu, and the Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976). Through the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), the ghazal became very popular in Germany during the 19th century; the form was used extensively by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) and August von Platen (1796–1835). The Indian American poet Agha Shahid Ali was a proponent of the form, both in English and in other languages; he edited a volume of "real ghazals in English".

Wo apne chehare mein sau afatab rakhte hain-Hasrat Jaipuri

wo apne chehare mein sau afatab rakhte hain

is liye to wo rukh pe naqab rakhte hain

wo pas baithe to aati hai dilab\ruba khushbu

wo apne hothon pe khilate gulab rakhte hain

har ek varq mein tum hi tum ho jan-e-mahabubi

hum apne dil ke kuch aisi kitab rakhte hain

jahan-e-ishq mein sohani kaheen dikhai de

hum apni aankh mein kitne chenab rakhte hain

Poet of the Ghazal :Hasrat Jaipuri

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Wo anjuman mein raat badi shan se gaye-Saeed Rahi

wo anjuman mein raat badi shan se gaye

iman cheez kya thi kai jan se gaye

main to chupa hua tha hazaron naqab mein

lekin akele dekh ke pehchan se gaye

wo shama ban ke khud hi akele jala kiya

paravane kal ke raat pareshan se gaye

aaya tera salam na aaya hai khat koi

hum aakhiri safar ke bhi saman se gaye

“rahi” jinhen khuda bhi na samajha saka kabhi

baithe bithaye dekh lo ab man se gaye

Poet of the Ghazal :Saeed Rahi

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Wo aake khwab mein taskin-e-iztirab to de-Mirza Ghalib

wo aake khwab mein taskin-e-iztirab to de

wale mujhe tapish-e-dil majal-e-khwab to de

kare hai qatl lagavat mein tera ro dena

teri tarah koi teg-e-nigah ko aab to de

dikhake jumbish-e-lab hi tamam kar hamako

na de jo bosa to muh se kaheen javab to de

pila de oak se saqi jo hum se nafrat hai

pyala gar nahi deta na de, sharab to de

‘asad’ khushi se mere hath panv phul gae

kaha jo us ne zara mere panv dab to de

poet of the poems/ghazal or nazam:mustafa zaidi

Poet of the Ghazal :Mirza Ghalib

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wo ahad ahad hi kya jise nibhao bhi-Mustafa Zaidi

wo ahad ahad hi kya jise nibhao bhi

hamare vada-e-ulfat ko bhool jao bhi

bhala kahan ke hum aise guman wale hain

hazar bar hum aayen hamen bulao bhi

bigad chala hai bahut rasm-e-khudkushi ka chalan

darne valo kisi roz kar dikhao bhi

tumhari neend mein dubi hui aankhon ke qasam

hamen ye zid hai ki jago bhi aur jagao bhi

Poet of the Ghazal :Mustafa Zaidi

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haye kin ganimon se aa pada hai ran mera -Abdullah Kamaal

us ke jam-e-jam aankhen shisha-e-badan mera

us ke band mutthi mein sara bankpan mera

aao aj hum donon apna apna ghar chun lain

tum tabah-e-dil le lo khitta-e-badan mera

main ne apne chehare pe sab hunar sajaye the

fash kar gaya mujh ko sada pairahan mera

dil bhi kho gaya shayad shahar ke surabon mein

ab meri tarah se hai dard bevatan mera

ek dasht-e-khamoshi ab hmera muqaddar hai

yaad besada teri zakhm bechaman mera

roz apni aankhon ke khwab khoon karta hun

haye kin ganimon se aa pada hai ran mera

magrabi hawa ne phir ye sandesha bheja hai

muntazir tumhara hai khushbuon ka ban mera

Poet of the Ghazal :Abdullah Kamaal

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Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals

Urdu Poetry Ghazals