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 Category:Urdu poetry Category:Poetic form

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