Lutfiy: life and ghazals

A matla‘ is the first couplet of a ghazal, in which both lines rhyme, and a maqta‘ is the last couplet in which the poet’s pen name appears. The ghazal with the radif “xoh inon, xoh inonma” has seven couplets, is about love and is in a more complex hazaj form of the aruz; the radif has four words, and “inon” against “inonma” gives an antithesis (tazod). The fifth couplet uses allusion (talmih): the lyric hero recalls the prophet Yaqub, who went blind from weeping for Yusuf, to say that he too lost his eyesight weeping without his beloved. The ghazal “Bu ko‘nguldur, bu ko‘ngul” also has seven couplets and is in the ramal meter; it blames the heart for all the lover’s sorrow – the heart makes him mad, brings him disgrace and insists on going to the door. “Ayoqingg‘a tushar har lahza gisu...” has five couplets, each ending its second line with a proverb, in the hazaj meter.