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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsJurat ka Kalam (Poems of Jurat)
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Shaikh Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat
Eighty ghazals by Shaikh Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat (d. 1810), the poet of Mir's generation: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Ghazals of love as it is lived, of meetings, quarrels, messages and making up, many built from the lovers' own talk, with wordplay on his pen name ("courage"), a garden in the rains, and his challenge to those who think the ghazal ended with Mir. Urdu text with a new, line-by-line English translation, notes, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Shaikh Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat, Jurat ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/jurat-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsBahadur Shah Zafar ka Kalam (Poems of Bahadur Shah Zafar)
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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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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsMushafi ka Kalam (Poems of Mushafi)
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Ghulam Hamadani Mushafi
Two hundred and sixty-seven ghazals by Ghulam Hamadani Mushafi (d. 1824), the master of the Urdu ghazal who followed Mir and Sauda: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Ghazals of love, wit and craft, of the tavern and the Shaikh, of ruined Delhi and of Lucknow, with poems on Basant, henna and moonlight, and his boasts against Mir and Sauda. Urdu text with a new, line-by-line English translation, notes, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Ghulam Hamadani Mushafi, Mushafi ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/mushafi-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsJigar Moradabadi ka Kalam (Poems of Jigar Moradabadi)
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Jigar Moradabadi
Eighty-nine poems by Jigar Moradabadi (d. 1960), one of the best-loved voices of the twentieth-century ghazal: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Ghazals of love's "river of fire", of wine, the Saqi and Hafiz, with a naat, and poems on the Bengal famine and in memory of Gandhiji. Urdu text with a new, line-by-line English translation, notes, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Jigar Moradabadi, Jigar Moradabadi ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/jigar-moradabadi-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsRiyaz Khairabadi ka Kalam (Poems of Riyaz Khairabadi)
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Riyaz Khairabadi
One hundred and thirty-three ghazals by Riyaz Khairabadi (d. 1934), the poet of wine: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Ghazals of the tavern, the Saqi and the caught-out preacher, of Sufi wine and the Day of Resurrection, with laments for a friend and a longing for Medina. Urdu text with a new, line-by-line English translation, notes, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Riyaz Khairabadi, Riyaz Khairabadi ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/riyaz-khairabadi-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsSeemab Akbarabadi ka Kalam (Poems of Seemab Akbarabadi)
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Seemab Akbarabadi
Sixty ghazals and twelve nazms by Seemab Akbarabadi of Agra (d. 1951), pupil of Daagh: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Ghazals that turn the classical images toward the search for the self, and poems on the rains, a firefly, a mother's lullaby, the homeland, Krishna, Gautam Buddha, Holi and the labourer. Urdu text with a new, line-by-line English translation, notes, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Seemab Akbarabadi, Seemab Akbarabadi ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/seemab-akbarabadi-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsArzoo Lucknavi ka Kalam (Poems of Arzoo Lucknavi)
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Arzoo Lucknavi
Sixty-three ghazals, a naat, a national song and five quatrains by Arzoo Lucknavi (d. 1951), pupil of Jalal Lucknavi, who carried the Lucknow ghazal into the twentieth century in a plain, spoken Urdu: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Urdu text with a new, line-by-line English translation, notes on wordplay and allusions, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Arzoo Lucknavi, Arzoo Lucknavi ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/arzoo-lucknavi-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsAatish ka Kalam (Poems of Aatish)
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Haidar Ali Aatish
One hundred and two ghazals and two groups of verses by Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish of Lucknow (d. 1847), pupil of Mushafi and one of the two great masters of the Lucknow ghazal: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Rich in wordplay and bold reversals of the old stories, and proud in its poverty, his verse plays constantly on his pen name, "fire". Urdu text with a new, line-by-line English translation, notes on puns and allusions, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Haidar Ali Aatish, Aatish ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/aatish-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsBekhud Dehlavi ka Kalam (Poems of Bekhud Dehlavi)
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Bekhud Dehlavi
Fifty-eight ghazals and a naat by Bekhud Dehlavi (d. 1955), pupil and heir of Daagh: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. In plain, idiomatic Delhi speech they carry the teasing exchanges of lover and beloved into the twentieth century: "She is sulking, yet the teasing goes on: now a message comes, now betel." Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Bekhud Dehlavi, Bekhud Dehlavi ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/bekhud-dehlavi-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsShad Azimabadi ka Kalam (Poems of Shad Azimabadi)
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Shad Azimabadi
Fifty-five ghazals and twenty-four quatrains by Shad Azimabadi of Patna (d. 1927), the leading Urdu poet of Bihar in his day: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Grave and inward in tone, they mourn Anees, praise Sir Syed's college at Aligarh, mock half-educated editors, and call the reader to wake before it is too late: "Wake, traveller, it is not night." Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Shad Azimabadi, Shad Azimabadi ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/shad-azimabadi-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsMehr ka Kalam (Poems of Mehr)
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Mirza Hatim Ali Beg Mehr
Forty-seven ghazals by Mirza Hatim Ali Beg Mehr (d. 1879), the friend and correspondent of Ghalib: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Witty and ingenious in the mid-nineteenth-century manner, they include a ghazal written wholly in undotted letters, one with a Persian refrain, a ghazal on Holi, and a lament for Benares, the city he left and longed for: "Ever since fate parted me from Benares, only 'Alas, Benares!' stays on my tongue." Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mirza Hatim Ali Beg Mehr, Mehr ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/mehr-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsTasleem ka Kalam (Poems of Tasleem)
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Ameerullah Tasleem
Sixteen ghazals by Ameerullah Tasleem of Lucknow (d. 1911), pupil of Naseem Dehlavi and teacher of Hasrat Mohani, who carried the line of Momin into the twentieth century: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Short, neat and witty in the Lucknow manner, they include a long mockery of the preacher, every couplet ending with "preacher", and a quieter note of faith: "Do not linger in the world; go on beyond the world." Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Ameerullah Tasleem, Tasleem ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/tasleem-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsMajrooh ka Kalam (Poems of Majrooh)
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Mir Mehdi Majrooh
Twenty-six poems by Mir Mehdi Majrooh of Delhi (d. 1903), Ghalib's favourite pupil and the "Mir Mehdi" of his famous letters: nineteen ghazals, six quatrains and a fragment, all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Among them are two laments for Delhi after 1857, one ending every couplet with "never" and one praying that Ghalib be kept safe, "for in his name alone a trace of Delhi now remains", beside quick, idiomatic ghazals in the Delhi manner. Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mir Mehdi Majrooh, Majrooh ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/majrooh-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsShefta ka Kalam (Poems of Shefta)
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Mustafa Khan Shefta
Ninety-seven poems by Nawab Mustafa Khan Shefta of Delhi (1809–1869), pupil of Momin, friend of Ghalib, mentor of Hali and the sternest critic of his age: ninety-five ghazals, a naat and a fragment on his own diwan, all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Polished, ironic and conversational, they argue with the beloved, the messenger and the rival through refrains such as "when were you not", "for nothing" and "all night long", and include the famous couplet on the tales of love: "we do embellish them, to adorn the story". Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mustafa Khan Shefta, Shefta ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/shefta-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsAasi Ghazipuri ka Kalam (Poems of Aasi Ghazipuri)
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Aasi Ghazipuri
Eighteen ghazals by Shah Abdul Aleem Aasi Ghazipuri (d. 1917), Sufi master of Ghazipur, whose pen name means "the sinner": all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. In the classical Lucknow manner, the tavern, the cupbearer and the cruel beloved carry a Sufi meaning: God's glory in everything, and the passing away of the self before union. Beside them are poems to Medina and to Ali, and ghazals of plain earthly longing. Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Aasi Ghazipuri, Aasi Ghazipuri ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/aasi-ghazipuri-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsAmeer Minai ka Kalam (Poems of Ameer Minai)
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Ameer Minai
Forty-seven poems by Ameer Ahmad Ameer Minai (1829–1900), court poet of Lucknow and Rampur, lexicographer and friendly rival of Dagh: forty-three ghazals and four naats in praise of the Prophet, all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Among them is his most famous ghazal, "The veil keeps slipping from her face, slowly, slowly", with refrains such as "we too are", "the answer" and "mashallah" turned with Lucknow wit and an easy, conversational touch. Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Ameer Minai, Ameer Minai ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/ameer-minai-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsNasikh ka Kalam (Poems of Nasikh)
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Imam Bakhsh Nasikh
Forty-two ghazals by Shaikh Imam Bakhsh Nasikh of Lucknow (d. 1838), the reformer of the Urdu language and rival of Atish, whose school shaped the witty, ingenious Lucknow manner: all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Refrains such as "paper", "colour", "gait", "of its own accord" and "in the veil of" are worked through every turn; beside the beloved's tresses stand a Holi ghazal, his return from exile to a whitewashed Lucknow, and couplets in praise of the Prophet and of Ali. Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Imam Bakhsh Nasikh, Nasikh ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/nasikh-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsMomin ka Kalam (Poems of Momin)
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Momin Khan Momin
Fifty-six poems by Hakim Momin Khan Momin (1800-1851), the Delhi physician-poet who was the contemporary and rival of Ghalib and Zauq: fifty-two ghazals and four quatrains, all his poems on Urdu Wikisource. Oblique, compressed and full of double meanings, they play out the drama of lover, beloved and rival, and keep turning on the poet's pen name, "believer", torn between the Kaaba and the idols. Includes the couplet for which Ghalib is said to have offered his whole diwan, and the famous ghazal "The pact there was between us, perhaps you remember it, perhaps you do not." Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Momin Khan Momin, Momin ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/momin-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsNazm Tabatabai ka Kalam (Poems of Nazm Tabatabai)
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Nazm Tabatabai
Thirty poems by Syed Ali Haidar Nazm Tabatabai (1852-1933), the Lucknow-born poet and scholar who grew up at the exiled court of Wajid Ali Shah in Matiya Burj and taught in Hyderabad, best known for his commentary on Ghalib and for rendering Gray's Elegy into Urdu. Twenty-five ghazals in the learned Lucknow manner, among them his lament for vanished Lucknow, and five nazms: "The Surge of Roses", a spring scene; "Joining a Gathering"; a satirical saqi-nama on drinking among the English-educated; a passage on the first revelation; and the opening stanza of "The Graves of the Strangers", his Gray's Elegy. Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Nazm Tabatabai, Nazm Tabatabai ka Kalam, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/nazm-tabatabai-ka-kalam. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Ghazal · 1841
Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsDiwan-e-Ghalib : le divan ourdou de Mirza Ghalib, première édition (1841)
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Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Le divan ourdou de Ghalib tel qu'il le publia pour la première fois, dans l'édition imprimée à Delhi en octobre 1841 : tous les ghazals dans l'ordre de leur radif, d'alif à ye, suivis de deux qasidas à la louange d'Ali, des qit'as et des rubaiyat, environ 1 100 distiques en tout. Ghalib y choisit ce qui, de sa première poésie ourdoue, devait demeurer, et beaucoup de ses distiques les plus célèbres s'y trouvent déjà. Les ghazals écrits après 1841, comme « Mille désirs », sont entrés dans des éditions ultérieures et ne figurent pas ici. L'ourdou a été transcrit d'après le scan de la Digital Library of India de l'impression de 1841 et vérifié sur le texte de référence ; une traduction fidèle l'accompagne distique par distique. Les deux premiers chapitres sont en lecture libre.
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Ghazal · 1841–1863
Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsIntikhab-e-Ghalib : soixante ghazals de Mirza Ghalib
دیوانِ غالب (متداول نسخہ)
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797–1869) a porté le ghazal ourdou à sa forme la plus inquiète. Il a vécu les dernières années de la cour moghole de Delhi, servi Bahadur Shah Zafar comme poète, vu la ville brisée en 1857, et changé les dettes, la disgrâce et la mort de ceux qu’il aimait en distiques qui interrogent Dieu, le désir et le moi avec esprit et chagrin à la fois : « Mille désirs, chacun digne qu’on en meure », « Ce n’est qu’un cœur, ni pierre ni brique », « Ô cœur naïf, que t’arrive-t-il ? » Cette sélection de soixante ghazals suit le cursus d’ourdou BS de la HEC et l’ordre du Diwan. Texte ourdou avec traduction en regard, distique par distique ; les dix premiers ghazals sont en lecture libre.
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Ghazal · 1811
Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsIntikhab-e-Mir : soixante ghazals de Mir Taqi Mir
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Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810) est le poète devant qui Ghalib lui-même s'inclinait : « Tu n'es pas le seul maître du rekhta, Ghalib ; on dit qu'il y eut jadis un Mir. » Il vécut le sac de Delhi par Nadir Shah et Ahmad Shah Abdali, perdit protecteurs, maison et ville, et fit de cette ruine les ghazals les plus simples et les plus poignants de la langue : l'amour comme une maladie qu'aucun remède ne guérit, le cœur comme une ville dévastée, le poète comme un mendiant qui chante à la porte et s'en va. Cette sélection de soixante ghazals suit le cursus d'ourdou de la HEC. Texte ourdou avec traduction en regard, distique par distique ; les dix premiers ghazals sont en lecture libre.
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