ghazal,”A style of Urdu poetry. A “”ghazal”” is a collection of couplets, called “”sher””. The most common theme of the ghazal is a unrequited love of the lover (ashiq), depectied as obsessed and self-sacrificing, for the beloved (mashuq), depicted as beautiful, proud, and cruel. The poetic style is somewhat loosely associated with Sufism, and in Sufi interpretation the ashiq is the human soul, and the mushuq is God. Ghazals, and the mood of the ghazal world
often figure in Hindi film songs.”