ARABIC GHAZALS Songs Download

A ghazal can touch the depth of the listener’s soul in a way no other music can. Even in the backdrop of immense joy, the painful lyrics and emotions of the singer can make your heart melt and your eyes moist. The biggest contribution of Arabic music industry to the world has been the invention of the ghazals most of which are available for free download online or after paying a small fee. The rich and meaningful ghazal lyrics are also downloadable for free.

The ghazal today has become a popular genre of music not just in the Arabic countries but internationally as well especially in the Indian subcontinent where a sizeable amount of the population understands Urdu or Persian, the languages in which ghazals are traditionally written. Infact they have been made extremely popular in Germany as well by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. English ghazals are also slowly becoming popular. This was first pioneered by the Kashmiri American Poet Agha Shahid Ali.

Many Indian and Pakistani ghazal singers like Jagjit Singh, Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Chitra, Farida Khanum, Talat Aziz, Hariharan, Bhupinder Singh, Pankaj Udhas, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan  to name a few have mastered the art of ghazal rendering. Listening to Jagjit Singh’s rendition of Hothon se choo lo tum can make a million hearts reach out for the pain and disappointment he suffers from which he manages to get through his song. One can listen to this mesmerizing song online or download it for free.

The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain. It’s derived from the word ghizaal, in English gazelle, which represents the cry of a deer. The themes are based on unattainable love, separation from a loved one, sacrifices of love, the loneliness and pain suffered by the heart when one is in love and love’s betrayal as well.