Ghazal
ख़ूब-रू ख़ूब काम करते हैं
This ghazal celebrates the captivating charm and graceful coquetry of the beloved. The poet depicts how beautiful beings effortlessly enchant and enslave a lover's heart with merely a single glance or a charming greeting.
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1
ख़ूब-रू ख़ूब काम करते हैं
यक निगह में ग़ुलाम करते हैं
Wondrous are the deeds the fair-faced do; in a single glance, they make a slave of you.
Beautiful people do wondrous deeds; with just a single glance, they make someone their slave.
2
देख ख़ूबाँ कूँ वक़्त मिलने के
किस अदा सूँ सलाम करते हैं
Behold the fair beauties at the hour of rendezvous— / With what exquisite grace they offer their salaam!
Look at the beauties at the moment of meeting, and see with what captivating grace and charm they greet.
3
क्या वफ़ादार हैं कि मिलने में
दिल सूँ सब राम-राम करते हैं
What faithful lovers they are indeed, that upon meeting, they bid their very hearts farewell.
What faithful people they are, that even upon meeting, they bid farewell to their very heart.
4
कम-निगाही सों देखते हैं वले
काम अपना तमाम करते हैं
With half-averted eyes they look, yet still / Their lethal task they utterly fulfill.
Although they look with only a slight or sidelong glance, they still completely finish their task (of destroying the lover).
5
खोलते हैं जब अपनी ज़ुल्फ़ाँ कूँ
सुब्ह-ए-आशिक़ कूँ शाम करते हैं
Whenever they unloose their flowing tresses,
They turn the lover’s morning into night.
When the beloved unties their dark tresses, they turn the lover's morning into evening.
6
साहिब-ए-लफ़्ज़ उस कूँ कह सकिए
जिस सूँ ख़ूबाँ कलाम करते हैं
He alone may be deemed a master of the word, with whom the fair beauties choose to converse.
Only that person can truly be called a master of words, with whom beautiful people choose to converse.
7
दिल लजाते हैं ऐ 'वली' मेरा
सर्व-क़द जब ख़िराम करते हैं
They put my heart to shame, O Wali, whenever those cypress-tall beauties walk in graceful stride.
O Wali, whenever beloveds with cypress-like tall statures walk with graceful strides, they make my heart feel shy and humbled.
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