Bahadur Shah Zafar

بہادر شاہ ظفر

Bahadur Shah Zafar in the original Urdu with a facing English translation. The first two chapters of each work are free with ads; Members and Patrons can read the full work without ads. Works can also be read in Roman Urdu and Hindi script.

Works by Bahadur Shah Zafar

Ghazal

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Bahadur Shah Zafar ka Kalam (Poems of Bahadur Shah Zafar)

بہادر شاہ ظفر کا کلام

Bahadur Shah Zafar

Fifty-two ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar (d. 1862), the last Mughal emperor of Delhi: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Ghazals of love in the Delhi manner, of Sufi faith and the setting aside of the crown, of change and loss, with long runs of wordplay, and the famous "My heart finds no peace in this ruined land". Urdu text with a new, line-by-line English translation, notes, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Bahadur Shah Zafar, Bahadur Shah Zafar ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/bahadur-shah-zafar-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.

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