Ghazal
न दरवेशों का ख़िर्क़ा चाहिए न ताज-ए-शाहाना
This ghazal renounces both worldly royalty and superficial asceticism in favor of pure, heartfelt devotion to the Divine. The poet seeks only enough consciousness to remain perpetually enchanted by the Beloved, prioritizing an indelible spiritual truth inscribed on the heart over mere bookish knowledge.
Source: rekhta · HI
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न दरवेशों का ख़िर्क़ा चाहिए न ताज-ए-शाहाना
मुझे तो होश दे इतना रहूँ मैं तुझ पे दीवाना
Neither the dervish's patched cloak do I crave, nor the royal crown of a king; grant me just enough wits, O Beloved, that I may remain mad in love with you.
I neither desire the patched cloak of a dervish nor the royal crown of a king; just grant me enough awareness that I may remain madly in love with you.
2
किताबों में धरा है क्या बहुत लिख लिख के धो डालीं
हमारे दिल पे नक़्श-ए-कल-हज्र है तेरा फ़रमाना
What worth is held in books? So many have I written and washed away; yet etched like an inscription in stone upon my heart is your every word.
There is little worth in books, for much has been written and washed away, but your spoken words are etched permanently like an inscription on stone upon my heart.
3
ग़नीमत जान जो दम गुज़रे कैफ़ियत से गुलशन में
दिए जा साक़ी-ए-पैमाँ-शिकन भर भर के पैमाना
Cherish each moment spent in ecstasy within this garden; keep pouring, O vow-breaking cupbearer, cup after brimming cup.
Consider every moment spent in bliss and intoxication in the garden as a blessing, and keep serving, O vow-breaking cupbearer, cup after brimming cup.
4
न देखा वो कहीं जल्वा जो देखा ख़ाना-ए-दिल में
बहुत मस्जिद में सर मारा बहुत सा ढूँडा बुत-ख़ाना
Nowhere did I behold that splendor which in the heart's chamber shone, / Though long I struck my brow in mosques, and searched each idol-shrine alone.
I did not see anywhere else the divine manifestation that I witnessed within my own heart, even though I knocked my head in mosques and searched extensively in idol temples.
5
कुछ ऐसा हो कि जिस से मंज़िल-ए-मक़्सूद को पहुँचूँ
तरीक़-ए-पारसाई होवे या हो राह-ए-रिंदाना
Let something happen so that I might reach my cherished goal—be it the path of austere piety, or the libertine's wayward stroll.
May something happen that leads me to my ultimate destination, whether it is through the path of piety or the way of the carefree libertine.
6
ये सारी आमद-ओ-शुद है नफ़स की आमद-ओ-शुद पर
इसी तक आना जाना है न फिर जाना न फिर आना
All this coming and going rests upon the breath's ebb and flow; this transit lasts only till then—thereafter, no more to come, no more to go.
All this movement and living depends solely on the ebb and flow of breath; this coming and going lasts only as long as breathing continues, after which there is no coming and no going.
7
'ज़फ़र' वो ज़ाहिद-ए-बेदर्द की हू-हक़ से बेहतर है
करे गर रिंद दर्द-ए-दिल से हाव-हु-ए-मस्ताना
Far better than the callous ascetic's hollow, pious cries, O Zafar, is the ecstatic chant a reveler raises from an aching heart.
O Zafar, if a carefree drunkard raises an ecstatic cry from true heartache, it is far better than the callous ascetic's hollow chanting of 'Hu-Haq'.
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