Meaning ofSee meaning aazaad-nazm in English, Hindi & Urdu

Benefitting from the Western literary tradition, Urdu poetry became free from the fetters of Qafiya and Radeef, giving way to the now-popular forms of Nazms; Azad Nazm and Muarra Nazm. However, these poems do follow the order of prosody. Muarra Nazm, or blank verse, is free of Qafiya and all its lines are united by one meter. For instance, Jan Nisar Akhtar’s nazm ’Mahakti Hui Raat’: Ye tire pyar ki khush-buu se mahakti hui raat Apne siine mein chhupae tire dil ki dhadkan Aaj phir teri ada se mire paas aaii hai Azad Nazm, or free verse, too, follows one meter, but its lines can be atypically shaped; some short, others long. Makhdoom Mohiuddin’s Nazm ‘Chaara-gar’ begins as follows: ik chamelī ke manDve-tale mai-kade se zarā duur us moḌ par do badan pyaar kī aag meñ jal ga.e Additionally, lines with same rhymes can also be incorporated in an Azad Nazm. Like in Faiz’s Nazm, ‘Tum Mire Paas Raho’: tum mire paas raho mire qātil, mire dildār mire paas raho jis ghaḌī raat chale, āsmānoñ kā lahū pī ke siyah raat chale marham-e-mushk liye, nashtar-e-almās liye bain kartī huī hañstī huī gaatī nikle dard ke kāsnī pāzeb bajātī nikle Tassaduq Hussain Khalid, Meeraji, and N. M. Rashid are considered to be the pioneers of Azad Nazm. Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Sardar Jafari and Akhtar-ul-Iman are also prominent poets of this genre.

Author: Azra Naqvi