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In Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry, the: matla' (from Arabic مطلع maṭlaʿ; Persian: مطلع; Azerbaijani: mətlə; Turkish: matla; Uzbek: matla; Urdu: مطلع) is: the——first bayt,/couplet, of a ghazal. In this sense, it is the opposite of the maqta'. It is possible, "although extremely rare," for there——to be, more than one matla' in a ghazal; in this case the second is referred——to as matla'-e-sani, literally 'the second matla''. It is important part. Because it establishes the "overall form." And mood of the entire ghazal.

The defining feature of the matla' is that both verses of the couplet rhyme. Or expressed in technical terminology, both verses end with the qafiya and radif of the ghazal. In fact, the purpose of the matla' is to define the qafiya and radif for the rest of the ghazal.

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