Ghazal
इस अदा से वो जफ़ा करते हैं
This ghazal poignantly captures the paradox of love, where the beloved inflicts cruelty with such grace that it appears as loyalty. It laments broken promises and reflects the lover's pain at the sharp contradiction between the beloved's words and actions.
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इस अदा से वो जफ़ा करते हैं
कोई जाने कि वफ़ा करते हैं
With such charming grace do they inflict their cruelty, that one might easily mistake it for true fidelity.
They inflict cruelty with such graceful charm that anyone would think they are being faithful.
2
यूँ वफ़ा अहद-ए-वफ़ा करते हैं
आप क्या कहते हैं क्या करते हैं
Is this how a pledge of faith is kept? What is it that you promise, and what is it you do!
Is this how one fulfills a promise of loyalty? Look at what you say versus what you actually do!
3
हम को छेड़ोगे तो पछताओगे
हँसने वालों से हँसा करते हैं
Provoke us, and regret will be your due; one only shares laughter with those who smile too.
If you provoke or tease us, you will regret it; we only share laughter with those who laugh with us.
4
नामा-बर तुझ को सलीक़ा ही नहीं
काम बातों में बना करते हैं
O messenger, you utterly lack all tact and grace; it is through words alone that affairs fall into place.
O messenger, you have no tact or manners at all; matters and tasks are accomplished through skilful conversation.
5
चलिए आशिक़ का जनाज़ा उट्ठा
आप बैठे हुए क्या करते हैं
Come along, the lover's funeral bier is borne away; what keeps you seated there, why do you delay?
Come along, the lover's funeral procession has begun; what are you still doing sitting there?
6
ये बताता नहीं कोई मुझ को
दिल जो आता है तो क्या करते हैं
No one ever tells me this: when the heart is lost to love, what is one to do?
No one tells me what one is supposed to do when one falls in love.
7
हुस्न का हक़ नहीं रहता बाक़ी
हर अदा में वो अदा करते हैं
No debt of beauty lingers unpaid; with every charming grace, the dues are repaid.
No right or due of beauty remains unpaid, as they fulfill it through each and every one of their graceful gestures.
8
तीर आख़िर बदल-ए-काफ़िर है
हम अख़ीर आज दुआ करते हैं
The arrow, after all, is the cruel beloved's reply; at long last, today, we turn our hearts to prayer.
The arrow, after all, is the substitute or response of the cruel beloved, so at last, today we resort to prayer.
9
रोते हैं ग़ैर का रोना पहरों
ये हँसी मुझ से हँसा करते हैं
For hours on end they weep over another's woe, / Yet at my expense, this mocking laughter they bestow.
They weep for hours over the grief of strangers, yet when it comes to me, they only mock and laugh at my condition.
10
इस लिए दिल को लगा रक्खा है
इस में महबूब रहा करते हैं
I have cherished and kept this heart alive for this sole reason: within its sanctuary, the beloved makes a home.
I have preserved my heart solely because my beloved resides in it.
11
तुम मिलोगे न वहाँ भी हम से
हश्र से पहले गिला करते हैं
You will not deign to meet us even there; so we voice our grief before the Day of Reckoning.
You will not meet us even there (on the Day of Reckoning), which is why we are voicing our complaint beforehand.
12
झाँक कर रौज़न-ए-दर से मुझ को
क्या वो शोख़ी से हया करते हैं
Peeking at me through the chink in the door, / with what playful charm do they feign modesty!
Peeking at me through the crack in the door, how delightfully and playfully they display their shyness.
13
उस ने एहसान जता कर ये कहा
आप किस मुँह से गिला करते हैं
Reminding me of every favor done, she said: 'With what face do you dare complain?'
Reminding me of the favors she had done, she asked with what face I dared to complain.
14
रोज़ लेते हैं नया दिल दिलबर
नहीं मालूम ये क्या करते हैं
Daily the beloved claims another heart; what they do with them all, none can tell.
The beloved takes a new heart every day, but no one knows what they actually do with them all.
15
'दाग़' तू देख तो क्या होता है
जब्र पर सब्र किया करते हैं
Just watch, O Dāgh, and see what comes to be; with patience we endure all tyranny.
O Dagh, just wait and see what happens next; one must bear oppression and tyranny with patience.
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