ارسلانؔ ارسی
A poet who builds things
Arooz was built by Arslan Arsi — a working Urdu poet from Chiniot, Pakistan, who happens to spend his days writing software.
The poetry
Arslan’s first collection, Raqs-e-Khayaal (رقصِ خیال), was written over two years and gathered the ghazals and free verse he had been working on since his college years. His writing is bold, varied in theme, and aimed at readers who feel deeply. His ghazals are also published on Rekhta — the world’s largest archive of Urdu poetry.
The technical side
His formal training is in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. The combination — a literate Urdu poet with the technical depth to model the prosody — is what made it feasible to build a tool that takes raw Urdu text and tells you, syllable by syllable, which bahr it scans in.
Why this exists
Classical Urdu prosody (علمِ عروض) is rigorous and beautiful, but its tools have always lagged behind the language. The previous web option — Sayed Zeeshan’s Aruuz, last updated in 2013 — was a generous gift to the community; this is the natural next step. Same algorithmic backbone, modern stack, full RTL+English+Roman trilingual UI, and an editable corpus of over 1,200 famous ghazals to learn from.