Wo jo humsafar tha humara, ab kisi aur ka hai,
Chalo ye safar bhi akele hi tai karte hain.
About Ahmad Faraz
Late 20th Century (Romantic Revolutionary)Ahmad Faraz is acclaimed as one of the finest modern Urdu poets of the last century. He wrote passionately about romance and political resistance, spending years in exile due to his courageous criticism of military regimes in Pakistan.
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Suna hai log usse aankh bhar ke dekhte hain,
So uske shahr mein kuchh din thehar ke dekhte hain.
Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhane ke liye aa,
Aa phir se mujhe chhod ke jaane ke liye aa.
“Even if it's just resentment, come — at least to cause pain to my heart; come, even if it's just to leave me again.”
Ab ke hum bichhde to shayad kabhi khwabon mein milein,
Jis tarah sookhe hue phool kitaabon mein milein.
“Now that we have separated, perhaps we will meet in dreams — the way dried flowers are found pressed in old books.”
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About the Shayari Tradition
Shayari is the art of expressing the deepest human emotions through precisely crafted verse — a tradition that spans over five centuries of Urdu and Hindi literature. The couplet form (Sher) at its heart is one of poetry's most demanding and rewarding structures: in just two lines, a great shayar must create a complete emotional world.
The poets in our collection — from classical masters like Mirza Ghalib and Meer Taqi Meer to modern legends like Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Gulzar — represent the full range of this tradition. Each couplet has been selected for literary merit, verified for correct attribution, and presented with the cultural context that helps it reach its full depth.