In old Arabic, ghazal means tender, gallant words addressed to a woman, and then the love poem; the word gave its name to the ghazal, the lyrical form of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu poetry (Turkish gazel). It shares the root gh-z-l with ghazal, “gazelle”, with which it is often confused, and with ghazl, “spun thread”. The name is very popular in Iran, Pakistan, Turkey (Gazel) and the Middle East.
And do not be like she who untwisted her spun thread after it was strong [by] taking your oaths as [means of] deceit between you because one community is more plentiful [in number or wealth] than another community. Allāh only tries you thereby. And He will surely make clear to you on the Day of Resurrection that over which you used to differ.
