رباعیات جوش کا فنی مطالعہ

Abstract

Quatrain is the most technicial type of Urdu and Persian poetry which is called in ‘Rubai’ in both literatures. Quatrain is considered a difficult type of poetry because of its twenty-four specific meters (buhoor). Despite of all difficulties it is very popular and attractive in the eyes of general people. Quatrain contain totally on four lines. Josh Malihabadi is considered a popular poet with the reference of his urdu poems and urdu quatrains (rubaiyat) however he also expreesed his views and thoughts in different types of poetry. He wrote three complete books of urdu quatrains i.e Junoon-o-Hikmat, Nujoom-o-Jawahir & Qatra-o-Qulzum. Moreover, a big number of his quatrain is included in other books of his poetry. Josh Malihabadi’s quatrains reflect the topics of religion, socialism, politics and romance etc. In his quatrains, Josh Malihabadi also criticize on poticila and religious leaders who are far from the realities of life and misguiding their followers. In this article, a technical review of his quatrains is taken and critically dicussed.