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The ghazal a type of amatory poem or Ode, was famous all around the Indian subcontinent in the

18 th and 19 th centuries. 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

Arabian panegyric gasida. 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.

The ghazal was spread into South Asia in the 12 th century by the influence of Sufi mystics and

the courts of the new Islamic sultanates. Although the ghazal is most prominently a form of Dari

and Urdu poetry, it is now found in the poetry of many languages on the Indian subcontinent.

The ghazal was initially composed to a purely religious theme. Now it is more likely to lean

towards romantic themes. All the lines of a ghazal have the same meter. It is common in ghazals

for the poet’s name (Known as takhallus) to be featured in the last verse(a convention known as

the magta).