Zindagi yun hui basar tanhaa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Qaafilaa saath aur safar <\/span>tanhaa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Apane saaye se chaunk jaate hain<\/em><\/p>\n

Umr guzari hai is qadar <\/span>tanhaa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Raat bhar bolate hain sannaate<\/em><\/p>\n

Raat kaate koyi kidhar <\/span>tanhaa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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• The Shers have to meet some criteria before a Ghazal<\/em> can be called a Ghazal<\/em>.<\/li>\n
• Criterion 1<\/strong>: The Sher<\/em> should be enough to convey a full message i.e. it should be relevant to the listener even without listening to anything before or after it.<\/li>\n
• In the example above, none of the Shers<\/em> needs assistance from any above or below to make sense.<\/li>\n
• Criterion 2<\/strong>: Each sentence of the Sher<\/em> should be of the same length; this length is called a Beher<\/em> (meter of the Sher<\/em>) and Beher<\/em> could be small, medium, or long.<\/li>\n
• All the Shers in our example are of small Beher<\/em>.<\/li>\n
• Criterion 3<\/strong>: The second lines of all the Shers<\/em> in a Ghazal<\/em> should end with the same last word or couple of words; the repeating common words are called Radiff<\/em>.<\/li>\n
• In the example above, \u2018tanhaa<\/em>\u2019 is the Radiff<\/em>.<\/li>\n
• Criterion 4<\/strong>: The words just before the Radiff<\/em> should have a rhyming pattern; this rhyming pattern is called Kaafiya<\/em> or Qaafiya<\/em>.<\/li>\n
• In the example, safar, qadar & kidhar<\/em> are Kaafiyas<\/em>.<\/li>\n
• Criterion 5<\/strong>: The first Sher of a Ghazal should have the same last word(s) – Radiffs – in both the sentences; the first Sher is called a Matla.<\/li>\n
• In the Matla of the example, both sentences have the same Radiff.<\/li>\n
• The last Sher usually gives reference to the poet, as a way of his\/her signature – basically poet\u2019s pen name; because of this reference of the poet, the last Sher is called Maqta.<\/li>\n
• Maqta<\/em> is not compulsory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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