Ashfaq was a very good Urdu poet who wrote beautiful couplets and ghazals with the pen-name of 'Warsi' and 'Hasrat'.
The music of the drama serial was directed by Arshad Mehmood and some of the ghazals were performed by Nayyara Noor including "Main Tum Se Na Puchun", "Raat Yun Dil Mein Teri" and "Hansi Khanakti Hui" (the theme song).
He is the son of Kuldeep Singh, who composed ghazals such as Tumko dekha to ye khayal aaya and Itni shakti hame dena daata, and wrote music for the movies Saath-Saath and Ankush.
He also wrote Ghazals and nazms and an epic, Shahr-e Hawas, which is considered his magnum opus.
She has since sung ghazals penned by the likes of Ghalib and Faiz Ahmed Faiz and has performed with legends like Mehdi Hassan and Ahmed Rushdi.
As with the Ghazals, the Rubayi have been heavily influenced by Arabic, Persian and Turkish poetry.
Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh has performed two of his ghazals, Khamoshi Khud Apni Sada Ho and Jeete Rehne Ki Saza De in his albums In Search and Face to Face, respectively.