Poets often use some special words to denote historical facts or personalities in their verse. Such special word is termed as Talmeeh/Allusion. It has great value owing to word economy of the poetry. It is therefore commonly used in poetry of every language. Urdu poets too have been and still employing this term in their poetic expression. This article focuses tradition and importance of Allusion in Urdu poetry besides incorporating its specimens from great poets of Urdu language.