• Musaddas (Urdu: مسدس) is a genre of Urdu poetry in which each unit consists of 6 lines-sestain- (misra). Famous early writers employing this form are Mir...
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    to write the Musaddas!” He also called it the "mirror of the nation's condition and an elegy expressive of its grief". In the Musaddas Hali condemned...
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  • unit form, qasida, or the four-line unit form, murabba. Over time, the musaddas became the most suitable form for a marsiya. In this form, the first four...
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    (مدح) Manqabat (منقبت) Marsia (مرثیہ) Masnavi (مثنوی) Munajat (مناجات) Musaddas (مسدس) Mukhammas (مخمس) Na`at (نعت) Nazm (نظم) Noha (نوحہ) Qasida (قصیدہ)...
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    Geet Ghazal Hamd Hazal Hijv Kafi Madah Manqabat Marsiya Masnavi Munajat Musaddas Mukhammas Naat Nazm Noha Qasida Qat'ã Qawwali Rubai Salam Sehra Shehr a'ashob...
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    He had an unrealised ambition to compose a critical edition of Hali's Musaddas, The Rise and Fall of Islam. He also had an ambition of eventually becoming...
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  • (مدح) Manqabat (منقبت) Marsia (مرثیہ) Masnavi (مثنوی) Munajat (مناجات) Musaddas (مسدس) Mukhammas (مخمس) Naʽat (نعت) Noha (نوحہ) Qasida (قصیدہ) Qat'ã (قطعہ)...
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  • Geet Ghazal Hamd Hazal Hijv Kafi Madah Manqabat Marsiya Masnavi Munajat Musaddas Mukhammas Naat Nazm Noha Qasida Qat'ã Qawwali Rubai Salam Sehra Shehr a'ashob...
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    Hindustanis. In the modern era, the Urdu poet Altaf Hussain Hali, wrote the book Musaddas-e Hali is considered by Pakistani scholars as an important text leading...
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  • Geet Ghazal Hamd Hazal Hijv Kafi Madah Manqabat Marsiya Masnavi Munajat Musaddas Mukhammas Naat Nazm Noha Qasida Qat'ã Qawwali Rubai Salam Sehra Shehr a'ashob...
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