It is the world's largest free online resource for Urdu poetry. It presents a massive collection of other forms of Urdu literature both in prose and poetry. The website hosts a free digital platform for rare Urdu books/ publications under its e-books section.

रेख़्ताریختہ old name of the Urdu language/ mixed dialect. गिरा पड़ा, बिखरा हुआ, उर्दू भाषा का पुराना नाम जो उसे एक शताब्दी पहले प्राप्त था।

'of Hind or India') for the 'Rekhta' dialect (the ancestor of Modern Urdu), the Persianized offshoot of the Apabharamsa vernacular Old Hindi, towards its emergence during the era of Delhi Sultanate, and gave shape to it in the Islamic literature, thus called "the father of Urdu literature".

It is important to think about the topic as well as the theme of a ghazal before starting to write it. The first line of a ghazal must include a refrain, which is a word or a phrase that can be easily fitted into the other couplets. Each couplet of a ghazal is known as Sher (شعر ).