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. This site brings the classical scansion method to a modern stack — full RTL+English+Roman trilingual UI, instant per-syllable taqti, and an editable corpus of over 1,200 famous ghazals to learn from.