Ghazal
कब्क ओ क़ुमरी में है झगड़ा कि चमन किस का है
This ghazal contemplates the impermanence of worldly power and territorial claims through the metaphor of birds quarreling over a garden. It carries a contemplative and philosophical tone, underscoring that time, fate, and the inevitable autumn of life ultimately erase all human pretensions of ownership.
Source: rekhta · HI
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कब्क ओ क़ुमरी में है झगड़ा कि चमन किस का है
कल बता देगी ख़िज़ाँ ये कि वतन किस का है
Between the partridge and the dove a dispute rages: to whom does the garden belong? / Tomorrow autumn shall reveal whose true homeland it was all along.
The partridge and the dove are arguing over who owns the garden, but tomorrow the autumn will arrive and reveal whose true homeland it really is.
2
फ़ैसला गर्दिश-ए-दौराँ ने किया है सौ बार
मर्व किस का है बदख़शान ओ ख़ुतन किस का है
A hundred times the turning wheel of time has decreed: to whom belongs Merv, and whose are Badakhshan and Khotan?
The revolution of time has decided a hundred times as to who truly owns Merv, and to whom Badakhshan and Khotan belong.
3
दम से यूसुफ़ के जब आबाद था याक़ूब का घर
चर्ख़ कहता था कि ये बैत-ए-हुज़न किस का है
When Jacob's home was flourishing with Joseph's living grace, the heavens asked, 'Whose house of sorrow is this place?'
When Jacob's home was thriving and full of life due to Joseph's presence, the heavens were already asking whose house of sorrow this was.
4
मुतमइन इस से मुसलमाँ न मसीही न यहूद
दोस्त क्या जानिए ये चर्ख़-ए-कुहन किस का है
Neither Muslim, Christian, nor Jew is content with its ways; friend, who knows to whom this ancient firmament belongs?
Neither the Muslim, nor the Christian, nor the Jew is satisfied with it; friend, who knows to whom this ancient firmament really belongs?
5
वाइ'ज़ इक ऐब से तू पाक है या ज़ात-ए-ख़ुदा
वर्ना बे-ऐब ज़माने में चलन किस का है
O preacher, either you are free of flaw, or God alone; / Else in this mortal world, whose conduct has remained unstained?
O preacher, either you are free of flaws or it is God alone; otherwise, whose conduct in this world is completely flawless?
6
आज कुछ और दिनों से है सिवा इस्तिग़राक़
अज़्म-ए-तस्ख़ीर फिर ऐ शेख़-ए-ज़मन किस का है
Far deeper than on other days is your absorption today; whom do you now resolve to captivate, O pious elder of our age?
Today your deep absorption is far greater than on other days; O elder of the era, whose conquest or subjugation have you now resolved upon?
7
आँख पड़ती है हर इक अहल-ए-नज़र की तुम पर
तुम में रूप ऐ गुल ओ नसरीन ओ समन किस का है
The gaze of every discerning eye is drawn to you; whose beauty do you bear, O rose, eglantine, and jasmine?
The eye of every discerning person falls upon you; O rose, eglantine, and jasmine, whose beauty and form do you possess?
8
इश्क़ उधर अक़्ल इधर धुन में चले हैं तेरी
रस्ता अब देखिए दोनों में कठिन किस का है
Love on that side, reason on this, both set off in your thrall; let us see now, between the two, whose journey is the hardest of all.
Love and intellect have both set out in pursuit of you in different directions; now let us see whose path turns out to be more difficult.
9
शान देखी नहीं गर तू ने चमन में उस की
वलवला तुझ में ये ऐ मुर्ग़-ए-चमन किस का है
If you have not seen her splendor in the garden, whose is this fervor within you, O bird of the garden?
O bird of the garden, if you have not seen the beloved's splendor in the garden, then whose passion and fervor is this within you?
10
हैं फ़साहत में मसल वाइ'ज़ ओ 'हाली' दोनों
देखना ये है कि बे-लाग सुख़न किस का है
In eloquence, both the preacher and Hali stand renowned as paragons; the real test is to see whose verse speaks impartial and unvarnished truth.
Both the preacher and Hali are exemplary in eloquence; what remains to be seen is whose speech is truly candid and impartial.
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