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Husn-e-Maqta

हुस्न-ए-मक़्ता
said HUSN-e-MAQ-taa
also written: Husne Maqta,Husn-e-Maqtaa
Meaning

The art of crafting a fine closing couplet — a maqta whose turn of thought or use of the takhallus gives the ghazal a striking close.

Literally: beauty of the closing couplet

See it in the verse

Husn-e-Maqta in Iqbal’s couplets

Ishq bhi ho hijab mein husn bhi ho hijab mein
Ya to khud aashkar ho ya mujhe aashkar kar
Love is veiled and beauty too is veiled; either reveal yourself, or make me one who can be revealed.
Love · Self-Knowledge · Restlessness
Miri mashshatgi ki kya zarurat husn-e-mani ko
Ki fitrat khud-ba-khud karti hai laale ki hina-bandi
What need has true beauty of meaning for my adorning hand? Nature, all on its own, paints the tulip red.
Self-Knowledge · Humility · Action
Related words
ARABIC

Maqta

The closing couplet of a ghazal, usually containing the poet's pen-name.

ARABIC

Takhallus

A poet's pen-name, conventionally woven into the closing couplet.

ARABIC

Husn-e-Matla

A second opening couplet in a ghazal that also carries the qafia and radif in both lines, following the first matla.

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