Ghazal
दिल को क्या हो गया ख़ुदा जाने
This ghazal reflects on the inexplicable melancholy and mysterious despondency of the heart. With a tone of poignant helplessness, the poet portrays an inner grief so deep and consuming that the heart can neither find solace nor share its quiet suffering.
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दिल को क्या हो गया ख़ुदा जाने
क्यूँ है ऐसा उदास क्या जाने
What has become of this heart, God alone knows / Why it is so forlorn, who truly knows?
Only God knows what has happened to this heart, and no one knows why it is so deeply sad.
2
अपने ग़म में भी उस को सरफ़ा है
न खिला जाने वो न खा जाने
Even in his own grief, he keeps a miser's care: he knows neither how to consume it, nor how to share.
He is miserly even with his own grief; he neither knows how to bear (consume) it himself, nor how to share (feed) it with others.
3
इस तजाहुल का क्या ठिकाना है
जान कर जो न मुद्दआ' जाने
What bounds could there be to such feigned unawareness—knowing full well, they still pretend not to know my plea.
There is no limit to such feigned ignorance, where someone knows everything yet pretends not to understand the purpose.
4
कह दिया मैं ने राज़-ए-दिल अपना
उस को तुम जानो या ख़ुदा जाने
I have confessed the secret of my heart; now whether you understand it, or God alone knows.
I have revealed the secret of my heart; now whether you understand it or not, only you or God knows.
5
क्या ग़रज़ क्यूँ इधर तवज्जोह हो
हाल-ए-दिल आप की बला जाने
What concern have you, why should your gaze turn this way? The state of my heart—why on earth should you care anyway?
You have no reason or concern to pay attention in this direction; why on earth would you care to know the condition of my heart?
6
जानते जानते ही जानेगा
मुझ में क्या है अभी वो क्या जाने
Only through knowing will he come to truly know; what lies within me, how could he fathom as yet?
He will understand me only gradually over time; right now, he has no idea what truly lies within me.
7
क्या हम उस बद-गुमाँ से बात करें
जो सताइश को भी गिला जाने
How can we speak with one so suspicious, who mistakes even praise for a grievance?
How can we talk to such a mistrustful person who treats even praise as a grievance or complaint?
8
तुम न पाओगे सादा-दिल मुझ सा
जो तग़ाफ़ुल को भी हया जाने
You will never find a heart as naive as mine, who mistakes even cold indifference for modesty.
You will not find anyone as simple-hearted as me, who mistakes even your cold indifference and neglect for modesty and shyness.
9
है अबस जुर्म-ए-इश्क़ पर इल्ज़ाम
जब ख़ता-वार भी ख़ता जाने
Idle is the blame cast upon the crime of love, when the sinner himself deems it a transgression.
Blaming the crime of love is futile when the offender himself already considers it a fault.
10
नहीं कोताह दामन-ए-उम्मीद
आगे अब दस्त-ए-ना-रसा जाने
The hem of hope is not cut short; beyond this now, let the unreaching hand decide.
The hem of hope is not short; beyond this, it is up to the unreaching hand to see whether it can reach it or not.
11
जो हो अच्छा हज़ार अच्छों का
वाइ'ज़ उस बुत को तू बुरा जाने
Better by far than a thousand virtuous souls, / O preacher, would you still deem that idol wicked?
O preacher, you consider that idol (beloved) to be bad who is actually better than a thousand virtuous people.
12
की मिरी क़द्र मिस्ल-ए-शाह-ए-दकन
किसी नव्वाब ने न राजा ने
Neither did any Nawab nor any Raja ever prize my worth, as did the King of the Deccan.
Neither any Nawab nor any Raja ever valued me the way the King of the Deccan did.
13
उस से उट्ठेगी क्या मुसीबत-ए-इश्क़
इब्तिदा को जो इंतिहा जाने
How could one ever endure the tribulations of love, who mistakes its very beginning for the ultimate end?
How can a person endure the hardships of love when they mistake its very beginning for the end?
14
'दाग़' से कह दो अब न घबराओ
काम अपना बता हुआ जाने
Tell Dagh he need not worry now; let him consider his work already done.
Tell Dagh not to worry anymore and to consider his task as already accomplished.
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