Ghazal
रूह बख़्शी है काम तुझ लब का
In this ghazal, the poet celebrates the miraculous and life-giving beauty of the beloved's lips, likening them to the revitalizing breath of Jesus and the elixir of immortality. Through classical metaphors, the verses convey profound adoration and the transformative power of love.
Source: rekhta · HI
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1
रूह बख़्शी है काम तुझ लब का
दम-ए-ईसा है नाम तुझ लब का
To bestow a soul is the true work of your lips; the life-giving breath of Jesus is the very name of your lips.
Granting life is the work of your lips, and your lips are known by the very name of the life-giving breath of Jesus.
2
हुस्न के ख़िज़्र ने किया लबरेज़
आब-ए-हैवाँ सूँ जाम तुझ लब का
The Khizr of beauty has filled to overflowing, with the water of eternal life, the goblet of your lips.
Beauty's Khizr has filled the goblet of your lips to overflowing with the water of immortality.
3
मंतिक़-ओ-हिक्मत-ओ-मआ'नी पर
मुश्तमिल है कलाम तुझ लब का
Upon logic, wisdom, and meaning profound / Rests every word that from your lips doth sound.
The speech spoken by your lips is based on logic, wisdom, and profound meaning.
4
जन्नत-ए-हुस्न में किया हक़ ने
हौज़-ए-कौसर मक़ाम तुझ लब का
In beauty's paradise, the Divine did decree, the heavenly pool of Kausar the dwelling of thy lips to be.
God has made the heavenly pool of Kausar the dwelling place of your lips in the paradise of beauty.
5
रग-ए-याक़ूत के क़लम सूँ लिखें
ख़त परिस्ताँ पयाम तुझ लब का
With a pen carved from the ruby's vein is writ, / Fairyland's letter, bearing the message of your lips.
The people of fairyland write the message of your lips using a pen made from the vein of a ruby.
6
सब्ज़ा-ओ-बर्ग-ओ-लाला रखते हैं
शौक़ दिल में दवाम तुझ लब का
The greenery, the leaf, and the tulip ever bear / In their heart an eternal longing for your lips.
The greenery, leaves, and tulip flowers always hold an eternal longing for your lips in their hearts.
7
ग़र्क़-ए-शक्कर हुए हैं काम-ओ-ज़बाँ
जब लिया हूँ मैं नाम तुझ लब का
Drowned in sweet sugar are my palate and tongue, whenever I utter the name of your lips.
Whenever I have spoken the name of your lips, my palate and tongue have drowned in sugar.
8
मिस्ल-ए-याक़ूत ख़त में है शागिर्द
साग़र-ए-मय मुदाम तुझ लब का
Like a mere apprentice to the fine script of your down is the ruby, while your lip remains an ever-brimming cup of perpetual wine.
Your lip is an eternal goblet of wine, and compared to the fine script-like down of your face, even the ruby is merely an apprentice.
9
है 'वली' की ज़बाँ को लज़्ज़त-बख़्श
ज़िक्र हर सुब्ह-ओ-शाम तुझ लब का
It bestows sweet delight upon Wali’s tongue—to speak, each dawn and dusk, of your lips.
Speaking of your lips every morning and evening grants great pleasure and sweetness to Wali's tongue.
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