Ghazals often deal with topics of spiritual and romantic love and may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation from the beloved and the beauty of love in spite of that pain.

Ghazal is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means love poem, or any poetry expressing strong emotion. It also means anything said in a sweet and melodious voice, affecting the person who hears it. It is derived from the Gh-Z-L root (yarn, love-speak, gazelle)which is used in the Quran in Surat an-Nahl: Gender Boy.

Urdu ghazal is a form of lyrical poetry that originated in the Urdu language during the Mughal Empire. It consists of rhyming couplets, with each line sharing the same meter.