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The ghazal [a] is a form of amatory poem or ode, [1] originating in Arabic poetry. [2] Ghazals often deal with topics of spiritual and romantic love and may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation from the beloved and the beauty of love in spite of that pain.
Naqdhā rā bovad āyā is a short ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz. It is no. 185 in the Qazvini-Ghani edition of Hafez's poems (1941). The poem is famous for a fine Persian miniature painting of 1585 illustrating the scene. In this poem Hafez advises hermits and ascetics to abandon their way of life and take ...
The Urdu ghazal is a literary form of the ghazal-poetry unique to the Indian subcontinent, written in the Urdu standard of the Hindostani language. It is commonly asserted that the ghazal spread to South Asia from the influence of Sufi mystics in the Delhi Sultanate .
Rumi's ghazal 163, which begins Beravīd, ey harīfān "Go, my friends", is a Persian ghazal (love poem) of seven verses by the 13th-century poet Jalal-ed-Din Rumi (usually known in Iran as Mowlavi or Mowlana). The poem is said to have been written by Rumi about the year 1247 to persuade his friend Shams-e Tabriz to come back to Konya from ...
Alā yā ayyoha-s-sāqī is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century poet Hafez of Shiraz. It is the opening poem in the collection of Hafez's 530 poems. In this poem, Hafez calls for wine to soothe his difficulties in love. In a series of varied images he describes his feelings.
By convention, poets writing ghazals often adopted poetic personas which they then invoked as pen names at the end of their poems, in what are called takhallos. [9] Rumi signed off most of his own ghazals as either Khâmush (Silence) or Shams-i Tabrizi. [10] Although he had belonged to a long tradition of Sufi poetry, Rumi developed his own ...
Shirazi Turk is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century Persian poet, Hāfez of Shiraz. It has been described as "the most familiar of Hafez's poems in the English-speaking world". [ 1 ] It was the first poem of Hafez to appear in English , [ 2 ] when William Jones made his paraphrase "A Persian Song" in 1771, based on a Latin version supplied ...
Chupke Chupke Raat Din (Urdu: چپکے چپکے رات دن) (transl. Quietly Quietly Night & Day) is a popular ghazal written by Maulana Hasrat Mohani. [1] The music composition is based on Raga Kafi [citation needed]. It is a classical Urdu poem that represents the culture of the Mughal Dynasty. The poem became famous after it was sung by ...