Roshni () is the fourth studio album and seventh overall album of Pakistani singer-songwriter Ali Zafar. It was released on 20 December 2025 by Lightingale Records via various music streaming services.
Ali Zafar, a Pakistani singer-songwriter, released his third studio album titled Jhoom in 2011. Since then, he has worked in a number of Hindi films. He debuted in Pakistani films with Teefa in Trouble in 2018. Meanwhile, he has also released three soundtrack albums. He also kept releasing singles, and launched a record label, titled Lightingale Records, in 2020.
Zafar announced his new album on 21 November 2025, when the music video of the first single "Zalim Nazron Se" was released in collaboration with Ali Haider; the two also premiered the song at the 2025 Hum Awards in Houston. At the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Zafar premiered some of the album tracks during the opening ceremony of the 2025âÂÂ26 International League T20, and announced the album title to be Roshni.
Zafar's alma mater, the National College of Arts, Lahore, hosted the launch event for the album on 19 December. The music video for the second single "Ruxaana" was released along with the complete album on 20 December. This is Zafar's fourth studio album after more than 14 years and 10 months since his last album. Consisting the tracks of acoustic pop and deep house genres, he called it as a celebration of Pakistani music icons, and "a journey through light and shadow" to "confront one's inner truths".
In January 2026, Zafar announced a social media challenge to conceptualize, create, and post the fan videos, based on any of the tracks from the album. He then also appeared on Hasna Mana Hai, a late-night show hosted by Tabish Hashmi on Geo News, to promote the album.
The album artwork along with the track listing was revealed on 6 December 2025. Musician Shani Arshad also collaborated with Zafar in producing some of the tracks; he had also collaborated for Zafar's different projects since his debut album Huqa Pani (2003). The song "Chal Dil Mere" from his debut album is also recreated by Zafar himself in collaboration with Talha Anjum, a hip-hop artist and the most-streamed on Spotify Pakistan in 2025. The album also features the remake of the critically acclaimed song "Mera Pyar" featuring DJ Shahrukh, originally performed by one of the most influential guitarist of Pakistan, Aamir Zaki, for his 1995 album Signature. It also contains one of Jaun Elia's poetries, "Be Qarari Si", and a recreated track of the band Vital Signs' second album, "Saanvali Saloni" featuring Alistair Alvin. The song "Zalim Nazron Se" was originally created by Roshan Nagianvi and Jawaid Akhtar, and popularised by Ali Haider, which is itself an Urdu version of a Pashto song "Da Spogmayy Khorey" by Mashooq Sultan.
According to Zafar's official notes on YouTube under each song, he dedicated the title song "Roshni" to his wife, Ayesha Fazli, whom he calls the strength that kept him from collapsing into the uncertain world. "Ruxaana" is described as a conversation about a boy's boundaries against a girl's madness, and shifts from Punjabi street poetry towards modern English attitude. The song "Mamacita" contains Punjabi flirtatious lyrics with a Latin melody, and features the character names Escobar and Rihanna. The songs like "5 Star" is called as an emotion between heartbreak and comfort, "Shiddat" as a devotion of choosing love when trust is broken into burns, "Dhoondta Hoon" as a repeated search of the doors of memory that will never open again, and "Tere Bin Mein" as a quiet truth about someone who surrenders to the risks of accepting a love.
The credits are adapted from the album playlist on YouTube.