Sher (poem)

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Sher or She'r (Arabic: شعر) is the common word for poem in Arabic and Persian.

In Urdu, sher is a form of poetry, essentially a couplet. The plural for Sher is Ashaar. The form ghazal is nothing but a collection of mulitiple shers - each of which should convey a complete thought without any reference to other shers of the same ghazal. In fact, though belonging to the same ghazal, the different shers therein can have completely different meaning and tone relative to one another. The following is an example of sher, composed by Mirza Ghalib:

nahii.n ki mujhako qayaamat kaa etiqaad nahii.n

shab-e-firaaq se roz-e-jazaa ziyaad nahii.n

It is not that I do not have faith in (the pains of) the day of judgement

But the night of separation is not less than the day of judgement.

What the poet is trying to say is that he trusts that the day of judgement would be very painful, as it has been described in Qur'an and Hadith; however, this night of separation from his beloved is not less painful than the day of judgement.

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