Ghazal
ये आह-ए-बे-असर क्या हो ये नख़्ल-ए-बे-समर क्या हो
This ghazal reflects on the depth of love, the ache of longing, and the significance of emotional pain. It conveys that a heart without the agony of love feels hollow, contrasting melancholic yearning with the joyful celebration brought by the beloved's manifestation.
Source: rekhta · HI
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ये आह-ए-बे-असर क्या हो ये नख़्ल-ए-बे-समर क्या हो
न हो जब दर्द ही यारब तो दिल क्या हो जिगर क्या हो
What good an unavailing sigh, what worth a barren tree? When pain itself is missing, O Lord, what use can heart or spirit be?
What is the use of an ineffective sigh, or what worth has a fruitless tree? O Lord, when there is no pain at all, of what value is a heart or spirit?
2
बग़ल-गीर आरज़ू से हैं मुरादें आरज़ू मुझ से
यहाँ इस वक़्त तो इक ईद है तुम जल्वा-गर क्या हो
Fulfillments embrace my yearning, and yearning embraces me; It is a joyous Eid here right now—has your radiant beauty appeared?
My fulfilled wishes embrace my desires and my desires embrace me; it is like an Eid here right now, ever since you have revealed your radiant presence.
3
मुक़द्दर में ये लिक्खा है कटेगी उम्र मर-मर कर
अभी से मर गए हम देखिए अब उम्र भर क्या हो
It is written in destiny that life will pass dying by degrees; dead already at the very start, let us see what becomes of the rest of life.
It is written in my fate that life will be spent dying bit by bit; I am dead already at the very start, so let us see what happens for the rest of my life.
4
मुरव्वत से हो बेगाना वफ़ा से दूर हो कोसों
ये सच है नाज़नीं हो ख़ूबसूरत हो मगर क्या हो
Estranged from kindness, leagues away from fidelity you stay; true, you are delicate and fair, but what of that, I say?
You are devoid of kindness and leagues away from faithfulness; it is true that you are delicate and beautiful, but what is the use of that?
5
लगा कर ज़ख़्म में टाँके क़ज़ा तेरी न आ जाए
जो वो सफ़्फ़ाक सुन पाए बता ऐ चारा-गर क्या हो
Lest your own death arrive as you stitch up my wound—tell me, O healer, what if that ruthless beloved should hear of this?
O healer, beware that death may befall you for stitching up my wounds; tell me, what will happen if that cruel beloved finds out about this?
6
क़यामत के बखेड़े पड़ गए आते ही दुनिया में
ये माना हम ने मर जाना तो मुमकिन है मगर क्या हो
The tumult of Doomsday broke upon us the moment we arrived in this world; granted, death is entirely possible, but what will come of it, what then?
As soon as we arrived in this world, we were entangled in countless troubles like Doomsday. We accept that dying is certainly possible, but what difference will even that make?
7
कहा मैं ने कि 'नज़्म'-ए-मुब्तला मरता है हसरत में
कहा उस ने अगर मर जाए तो मेरा ज़रर क्या हो
kahā maiñ ne ki 'nazm'-e-mubtalā martā hai hasrat meñ
kahā us ne agar mar jaa.e to merā zarar kyā ho
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