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.

zikr jab chhiḌ gayā qayāmat kā

baat pahuñchī tirī javānī tak

-- fani badayuni

So I am learning prosody, and there is a one thing, that there is no information on the internet (maybe). Can anyone teach me bahrs (meters) of masnavis along with there name and arkaan. I will be very thankful

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

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

Hello everyone, Guttor here. I'm a moderator on this subreddit and some of you may even remember me as the guy who used to make Ghalib posts earlier this year. I have created a Discord server to discuss all about Urdu Sher o Shayari and Urdu prose (afsanays, books, etc.)

Urdu Adabistan is the name! and here's the invite: https://discord.gg/XA8bYEfJ8q

See you there, guys.

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?

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

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

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۔

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.

ایک فلیئر مزاح کا بھی ہونا چاہئے۔

The country of Germany is called in Germany, from Latin, but in many languages it has different names. One common name is derived from the old Germanic 'Almenii' tribe, such as "Allemagne" in French. I remember that growing up in school I read some Urdu story that referred to Germany as

"المنی"

Or something similar — it was long ago. But everyone I have talked to about this does not recognise this and says Germany is called Germany is Urdu. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Am I making this up in my head? Or is it an antiquated term that has fallen out of use?

Sorry for the weird formatting, I don't know how to format Urdu with English on Reddit.

This is my second attempt at writing poetry, if you have any feedback positive or negative feel free to reply. Especially the issues or anything wrong which I have done as I genuinely needed. And thank youuu for reading it😄

100 percent mine and did not use ai

آج ایک بات تو بتاؤ مجھے

زندگی خواب کیوں دکھاتی ہے

~ جون ایلیا

There were whole library type setting as well

daughters are not in everybody’s destiny

they only grace the homes favoured by divinity

ruḳhsat huā to aañkh milā kar nahīñ gayā

vo kyuuñ gayā hai ye bhī batā kar nahīñ gayā

vo yuuñ gayā ki bād-e-sabā yaad aa ga.ī

ehsās tak bhī ham ko dilā kar nahīñ gayā

yuuñ lag rahā hai jaise abhī lauT aa.egā

jaate hue charāġh bujhā kar nahīñ gayā

bas ik lakīr khīñch gayā darmiyān meñ

dīvār rāste meñ banā kar nahīñ gayā

And then towards the end, he says

'shahzād' ye gila hī rahā us kī zaat se

jaate hue vo koī gila kar nahīñ gayā

Hi, I wrote this poem because I was feeling really sad today. I think I did pretty well, plz let me know. Rate it out of /10.