Ghazal
बे-कैफ़ दिल है और जिए जा रहा हूँ मैं
This ghazal captures profound melancholy and emotional numbness, portraying the quiet endurance of living despite a desolate, joyless heart. Viewing grief as an invaluable treasure, the poet accepts his sorrow as life's constant companion, dispensing it through perpetual sighs.
Source: rekhta · HI
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बे-कैफ़ दिल है और जिए जा रहा हूँ मैं
ख़ाली है शीशा और पिए जा रहा हूँ मैं
Joyless is the heart, yet I go on living; / Empty is the glass, yet I go on drinking.
My heart is devoid of joy, yet I go on living; the wineglass is empty, yet I go on drinking.
2
पैहम जो आह आह किए जा रहा हूँ मैं
दौलत है ग़म ज़कात दिए जा रहा हूँ मैं
As sigh upon sigh incessantly I go on heaving; sorrow is my wealth, and its alms I keep paying.
The reason I constantly heave sighs is that grief is my wealth, and through these sighs, I am continually paying its charity.
3
मजबूरी-ए-कमाल-ए-मोहब्बत तो देखना
जीना नहीं क़ुबूल जिए जा रहा हूँ मैं
Behold the helplessness born of love's perfection: living is unacceptable to me, yet I go on living.
Behold the helplessness of love at its peak: I do not accept living, yet I continue to live.
4
वो दिल कहाँ है अब कि जिसे प्यार कीजिए
मजबूरियाँ हैं साथ दिए जा रहा हूँ मैं
Where is that heart left now, that one could give to love? Bound by sheer helplessness, I merely carry on.
Where is that heart left now that could love someone; it is only sheer helplessness that compels me to keep accompanying you.
5
रुख़्सत हुई शबाब के हमराह ज़िंदगी
कहने की बात है कि जिए जा रहा हूँ मैं
Life took its leave alongside youth; / It is merely for the saying's sake that I still live on.
Life departed along with youth; it is merely a manner of speaking that I am still living.
6
पहले शराब ज़ीस्त थी अब ज़ीस्त है शराब
कोई पिला रहा है पिए जा रहा हूँ मैं
Once wine was life, now life itself is wine; someone keeps pouring, and I drink endlessly.
Earlier, wine was life, but now life itself has become wine; someone keeps serving it to me, and I just keep on drinking.
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