The word “AAmad” comes to mind when describing a good “shair”. It is as if it came to the Shair’s mind directly from God or Allah. As Ghalib proudly mentioned about his own poetry “these topics come to the imagination from the ether (unseen universe)”. Just like when a poet says a shair, and it is considered to be a really good one by the common people, then the people think that it was naturally this way. However in poetry terms the word “Aamad” is used for a type of shair that a poet creates once and never changed it. It does not matter which line of a shari was created first, but both lines together make a beautiful shair, so that is call “aamad”. And if a poet is composing a shair like the way it is supposed to be composed, meaning create the second line first, and then create the first line, but still the poet is not satisfied and see some mistakes then he will try to fix it sometime in sense of using words or some times topic. So in Urdu poetry terminology its called “Aawurd”. Meanings poet had to work on it to compose it correctly and it was not got created at once without making any changes. But it does not matter to people (listener or reader) or neither poet has to mention it to anyone if he created the shair once or it took poet 10 years of hard work to complete it. By keep composing shair and practicing poet becomes expert in it. Sometimes he/she can create a shair at once and some times it takes days of thinking and analyzing. Just like a typist can type and like knitters can knit without even looking at what they are doing. Getting expert in doing poetry is a separate and unique quality.
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