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In Urdu, Ishq ( عشق) is used to refer to fervent love for any object, person or God. However, it is mostly used in its religious context. In Urdu, three very common religious terminologies have been derived from Ishq.
Urdu poetry ( Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan.
This is a list of English-language words of Hindi and Urdu origin, two distinguished registers of the Hindustani language. Many of the Hindi and Urdu equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin. Many others are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin. Some of the latter are in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases ...
" Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua " ( Urdu: لب پہ آتی ہے دعا; also known as " Bachche Ki Dua "), is a duʿā or prayer, in Urdu verse authored by Muhammad Iqbal in 1902. [1] The dua is recited in morning school assembly almost universally in Pakistan, [2] [3] and in Urdu-medium schools in India. [4] [5]
Urdu has been described as a Persianised register of the Hindustani language; [16] [17] Urdu and Hindi share a common Sanskrit - and Prakrit -derived vocabulary base, phonology, syntax, and grammar, making them mutually intelligible during colloquial communication. [18] [19] [20] While formal Urdu draws literary, political, and technical vocabulary from Persian, [21] formal Hindi draws these ...
Ghalib was a chronicler of a turbulent period. One by one, Ghalib saw the bazaars – Khas Bazaar, Urdu Bazaar, Kharam-ka Bazaar, disappear, and whole mohallas (localities) and katras (lanes) vanish. The havelis (mansions) of his friends were razed to the ground. Ghalib wrote that Delhi had become a desert.
Mir lived at a time when Urdu language and poetry was at a formative stage – and Mir's instinctive aesthetic sense helped him strike a balance between the indigenous expression and new enrichment coming in from Persian imagery and idiom, to constitute the new elite language known as Rekhta or Hindui.
Marriage in Pakistan ( Urdu: پاکستانی شادی) pertains to wedding traditions established and adhered by Pakistani men and women. Despite their local and regional variations, marriages in Pakistan generally follow Islamic marital jurisprudence. [1] [2] Marriages are not only seen as a union between a husband and a wife, but also an alliance between their respective families. [3] These ...
A shayar is a poet who composes sher or couplet in Urdu poetry (Urdu shayari). A shayar is someone who writes ghazals, nazms using the Urdu, Hindi & Bangla language.
Yusuf and Zulaikha. Yusuf and Zulaikha (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) is a title given to many tellings in the Muslim world of the story of the relationship between the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife. Developed primarily from the account in Sura 12 of the Qur'an, a distinct story of Yusuf and Zulaikha seems to ...