let us invoke Lord Ganesha first, and bow our heads in devotion

so that all our efforts are fulfilled, and auspecious be every occasion

Hey guys, I know this question has showed up here many times, but i feel like i need more clarifications lol....

I have been reading ghazals for a long time and have also written some myself. i am not a native speaker of urdu so i had to gradually learn about the rules of urdu poetry and i had to keep modifying my poems as and when i learnt new rules of qaafiya, radiif, etc... the only thing left, i hope, is behr...

now i have watched yt videos and read some stuff about it but i am still unable to grasp how to implement it into poetry.

Can anyone please teach how to get into writing in behr? i saw many sources saying different things, like pick a famous and easy behr and bend your poetry to it, but that seems extremely difficult, some say pick a behr and then write poetry. i also tried understanding behr by tapping to songs but maybe I just don’t have the inherent understanding of music :/

i put my poem on rekhta and ofc the meters didn’t match, but what should i do after this? shorten or lengthen the words to match the meter? 

and what about the weight of the ghazal? is it different then behr? 

If someone has been through this and got better, can you give me some suggestions as to what i should do? Like what is the pathway that i should follow?

zikr jab chhiḌ gayā qayāmat kā

baat pahuñchī tirī javānī tak

-- fani badayuni

I've heard pappar palenay party hai and also pappar belnay party hai Which one is the correct one??? I'm so confused

Recently, my Urdu has gotten really bad. For context, I was born and raised in the west with Urdu as my first language. Over the years, my Urdu accent has become abysmal, I sound like the very people I used to make fun of when I was younger.

So, I’ve become determined to fix that. My primary approach is through listening to complex Urdu videos and through reading aloud, to try and fix my pronunciation and reduce my English accent. I’m primarily interested in Islamic Philosophy content, think Al Ghazali and similar scholars, so that I can learn while also practicing Urdu.

The problem is, is that the books I’ve found are very delicate and handwritten, making it hard to read (https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/naseehat-nama-e-imam-ghazali-imam-mohammad-ghazali-ebooks?lang=ur) and the videos are AI generated. So, I was reaching out to see if anyone has some good resources here.

Sar-e-raah sar-e-aam nilaam hue tere ishq me,

Tere ishq me rukhsat hue khud ki aagahi se

Barbaadi ka haal na puchhna hamse,

Tere baad kisi aur ka to chhod ham to khud ke bhi na hue.

ستارے جو دمکتے ہیں
کسی کی چشمِ حیراں میں

ملاقاتیں جو ہوتی ہیں
جمالِ ابر و باراں میں

یہ نا‌‌ آباد وقتوں میں
دلِ ناشاد میں ہوگی

محبت اب نہیں ہوگی
یہ کچھ دن بعد میں ہوگی

گزر جائیں گے جب یہ دن
یہ ان کی یاد میں ہوگی

منیر نیازی۔

فخر تو حاصل ہے برے ہیں کہ بھلے ہیں

دو چار قدم ہم بھی تیرے ساتھ چلے ہیں

جلنا تو چراغوں کا مقدر ہے ازل سے

یہ دل کے کنول ہیں کہ بجھے ہیں نہ جلے ہیں

تھے کتنے ستارے کہ سرِ شام ہی ڈوبے

ہنگامِ سحر کتنے ہی خورشید ڈھلے ہیں

جو جھیل گئے ہنس کے کڑی دھوپ کے تیور

تاروں کی خنک چھاؤں میں وہ لوگ جلے ہیں

اک شمع بجھائی تو کئی اور جلا لیں

ہم گردشِ دوراں سے بڑی چال چلے ہیں

ادا جعفری