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Encyclopedia > Qaafiyaa

A device employed in a form of Urdu Poetry known as Ghazals. The Qaafiyaa is the rhyming pattern of words that must directly proceed the Ghazal's Radif. The example below is of a Ghazal below by Daag Dehelvi.


In this case the Qaafiyaa is the following pattern of words: jalwa-gaah, nigaah, raah, haale-tabaah and aah


The Radif is mein.


aafat kii shoKhiyaa.N hai.n tumhaarii nigaah mein


mehashar ke fitane khelate hai.n jalwa-gaah mein



wo dushmanii se dekhate hai.n dekhate to hain


mai.n shaad huu.N ke huu.N to kisii kii nigaah mein



aatii baat baat mujhe yaad baar baar


kahataa huu.N dau.D dau.D ke qaasid se raah mein



is taubaah par hai naaz mujhe zaahid is qadar


jo TuuT kar shariik huu.N haal-e-tabaah mein



mushtaaq is adaa ke bahot dard-ma.nd the


ae DaaG tum to baiTh gaye ek aah mein


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Ghazal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (743 words)
Although the ghazal is most prominently a form of Urdu poetry, today, it has influenced the poetry of many languages.
A Ghazal in short, is a collection of couplets (called sher) which follow the rules of Matla, Maqta, Beher, Qaafiyaa, Radif, Khayaal and Wazan.
The traditional complete ghazal has a matla, a maqta, and three other shers in between.
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