The Matla (Arabic: مطلع) is the first sher, or couplet, of a ghazal, a collection of poems in Urdu poetry. It is possible, although extremely rare, for there to be more than one matla in a ghazal; in this case the second is referred to as matla-e-sani, literally the second matla.

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Enjoy these websites with an exceptional collection of ghazals.

• Excellent resource with over 1000 Ghazals and Nazms.
• The ghazals and nazms in the Urdu poetry archive have been indexed alphabetically as well as by poet. As of 31st December, 2005 there are 1826 ghazals and nazms by 343 poets in the archive.
• sher aur shayari.
• collection of sher and shayari.

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And far east it means river.

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