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What
is 'Maqta' ?
A Shayar
usually has an alias ie. 'takhallus' eg. Mirza Asadullakhan used 'Ghalib' as his
'takhallus' and is known by that. Other examples are 'Daag' Dehlvi, 'Mir' Taqi Mir, Said
'Rahi', Ahmed 'Faraz' etc. There is a Sher in a Ghazal, the last one, which has the Shayar's
'takhallus' in it.
To
summarize, Ghazal is a collection of Sher's (independent two-line poems),
in which there is atleast one 'Matla', one 'Maqta' and all the
Sher's are of same 'Beher' and have the same 'Kaafiyaa' and 'Radif'.
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