Ghazal
कहीं पहुँचो भी मुझ बे-पा-ओ-सर तक
This ghazal explores the depth of love and the paradox of its experiences. The poet expresses a desire to reach every corner of the beloved, even to the place where the stain has reached the heart. It suggests that what was once seen as fire, turns to dust by morning, and even the moon-like face is only for the night.
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कहीं पहुँचो भी मुझ बे-पा-ओ-सर तक
कि पहुँचा शम्अ-साँ दाग़ अब जिगर तक
Even if you reach me, oh, my heart, I am already marked by the flame of longing, up to my very soul.
Even if you reach me, oh, my heart, know that the stain of the flame has now reached my very soul.
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कुछ अपनी आँख में याँ का न आया
ख़ज़फ़ से ले के देखा दर-ए-तर तक
Something of yours, or perhaps a glance in your eye, has not come into being. Having seen it through the destruction, it reached the door of the sea.
Something of yours, or perhaps a glance in your eye, has not come into being. Having seen it through the destruction, it reached the door of the sea.
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जिसे शब आग सा देखा सुलगते
उसे फिर ख़ाक ही पाया सहर तक
One who saw [love] burning like fire,
By dawn, he found only ashes.
He who saw [love] burning like fire throughout the night, found only ashes by dawn.
4
तिरा मुँह चाँद सा देखा है शायद
कि अंजुम रहते हैं हर शब इधर तक
Perhaps you saw my face like the moon,
As if the stars dwell here every night.
Perhaps you saw my face like the moon, as if the stars dwell here every night.
5
जब आया आह तब अपने ही सर पर
गया ये हाथ कब उस की कमर तक
When the sigh arrived, it fell upon one's own head;
When did this hand reach the waist of that one?
When the sigh arrived, it fell upon one's own head; when did this hand reach the waist of that one?
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हम आवाज़ों को सैर अब की मुबारक
पर-ओ-बाल अपने भी ऐसे थे पर तक
The sounds of the city are a pleasant stroll now,
Though our own hair and beard were once so much like them.
The Shayar says that the sounds of the city are a pleasant stroll now, although his own hair and beard were once just as much like them.
7
खिंची क्या क्या ख़राबी ज़ेर-ए-दीवार
वले आया न वो टक घर से दर तक
What mischief, what trouble was dragged beneath the wall,
He came, from home to door, not even from the hearth.
What mischief, what trouble was dragged beneath the wall; he came, from home to door, not even from the hearth.
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गली तक तेरी लाया था हमें शौक़
कहाँ ताक़त कि अब फिर जाएँ घर तक
I had brought you all the way to the street, what desire was there, that now we should go back home?
I had brought you all the way to the street, what desire was there, that now we should go back home? (This suggests that the speaker's desire was fulfilled just by reaching the street, and they lack the strength or will to return home.)
9
यही दर्द-ए-जुदाई है जो इस शब
तो आता है जिगर मिज़्गान-ए-तर तक
This pain of separation is what comes to the heart's edge tonight,
It arrives at the threshold of the soul's chamber.
This pain of separation is what comes to the heart's edge tonight, arriving at the threshold of the soul's chamber.
10
दिखाई देंगे हम मय्यत के रंगों
अगर रह जाएँगे जीते सहर तक
We shall appear in the colours of the deceased, / If we remain alive until dawn.
We will appear in the colors of the deceased, if we remain alive until dawn.
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कहाँ फिर शोर शेवन जब गया 'मीर'
ये हंगामा है इस ही नौहागर तक
Where then is the noise of Shevān when Mir departed?
This tumult is merely within this mourning-house.
The couplet literally asks: Where is the noise of Shevan now that Mir has departed? It concludes that this commotion is confined only to this house of mourning.
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