Ghazal
टुकड़े नहीं हैं आँसुओं में दिल के चार पाँच
This ghazal vividly captures the agony, sorrow, and sublime ecstasy of romantic sacrifice. Through dramatic imagery of bleeding wounds and tears carrying fragments of the broken heart, the poet expresses a devoted surrender to the beloved's torment.
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टुकड़े नहीं हैं आँसुओं में दिल के चार पाँच
सुरख़ाब बैठे पानी में हैं मिल के चार पाँच
These are no mere shards of a torn heart drifting upon my tears; / Rather, four or five crimson shelducks gathered where the water clears.
These are not four or five broken pieces of the heart floating in tears; rather, it is as if four or five ruddy shelducks are sitting together in the water.
2
मुँह खोले हैं ये ज़ख़्म जो बिस्मिल के चार पाँच
फिर लेंगे बोसे ख़ंजर-ए-क़ातिल के चार पाँच
These four or five wounds that gape open on the slain / Will kiss the killer's dagger four or five times again.
The four or five open wounds on the dying victim appear to have opened their mouths, ready to kiss the killer's dagger four or five more times.
3
कहने हैं मतलब उन से हमें दिल के चार पाँच
क्या कहिए एक मुँह हैं वहाँ मिल के चार पाँच
I have just four or five desires of the heart to declare; yet what can I say, when four or five mouths speak as one over there?
I wish to speak four or five matters of my heart to them, but what can I say when four or five people over there have joined together to speak with one voice?
4
दरिया में गिर पड़ा जो मिरा अश्क एक गर्म
बुत-ख़ाने लब पे हो गए साहिल के चार पाँच
When a single scalding tear of mine fell down into the river, four or five idol-temples rose upon the shore's moist lip.
When a single warm tear of mine fell into the river, four or five idol-temples emerged along the shore.
5
दो-चार लाशे अब भी पड़े तेरे दर पे हैं
और आगे दब चुके हैं तले गिल के चार पाँच
A few slain bodies still lie fallen at your door, while buried deep beneath the earth are four or five before.
Two or three corpses are still lying outside your door, and further ahead, four or five are already buried under the earth.
6
राहें हैं दो मजाज़ ओ हक़ीक़त है जिन का नाम
रस्ते नहीं हैं इश्क़ की मंज़िल के चार पाँच
Two are the paths, known as the worldly and the divine; to love's destination, there are no four or five roads.
There are only two paths to the destination of love, known as the worldly (Majaz) and the divine (Haqiqat); there are no four or five separate roads.
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रंज ओ ताब मुसीबत ओ ग़म यास ओ दर्द ओ दाग़
आह ओ फ़ुग़ाँ रफ़ीक़ हैं ये दिल के चार पाँच
Anguish, torment, sorrow and grief, despair, ache, and scar; Sighs and laments—these few alone the heart's companions are.
Grief, toil, affliction, sorrow, despair, pain, wounds, sighs, and laments—these are the heart's only companions.
8
दो तीन झटके दूँ जूँ ही वहशत के ज़ोर में
ज़िंदाँ में टुकड़े होवें सलासिल के चार पाँच
The moment I give two or three fierce jolts in the frenzy of madness, into four or five pieces shatter the chains within the prison.
As soon as I give two or three jerks in the fit of madness, the chains in the prison shatter into four or five pieces.
9
फ़रहाद ओ क़ैस ओ वामिक़ ओ अज़रा थे चार दोस्त
अब हम भी आ मिले तो हुए मिल के चार पाँच
Farhad, Qais, Wamiq, and Azra were once a band of four; now that I too have joined their rank, we make some four or five.
Farhad, Qais, Wamiq, and Azra used to be four friends. Now that I have also joined them, together we have become four or five.
10
नाज़ ओ अदा ओ ग़म्ज़ा निगह पंजा-ए-मिज़ा
मारें हैं एक दिल को ये पिल पिल के चार पाँच
Coquetry, charm, the teasing glance, the gaze, and the lashes' claw—falling upon a single heart, these four or five strike as one.
Coquetry, grace, flirtatious winks, glances, and the claw of eyelashes—these four or five together repeatedly assault and torment a single heart.
11
ईमा है ये कि देवेंगे नौ दिन के बाद दिल
लिख भेजे ख़त में शे'र जो बे-दिल के चार पाँच
It is a subtle hint that she will yield her heart once nine days pass, for in her letter she has sent four or five verses of Bedil.
This is a hint that they will give away their heart after nine days, because they have written and sent four or five couplets of Bedil in their letter.
12
हीरे के नौ-रतन नहीं तेरे हुए हैं जमा
ये चाँदनी के फूल मगर खिल के चार पाँच
No cluster of nine diamond gems has gathered in your grace, / Yet blossoms of pale moonlight bloom—a mere four or five in place.
The nine diamond jewels have not gathered for you, but these flowers of moonlight have blossomed, just four or five of them.
13
मीना-ए-नुह-फ़लक है कहाँ बादा-ए-नशात
शीशे हैं ये तो ज़हर-ए-हलाहल के चार पाँच
Where in the decanter of the nine heavens is the wine of delight? / These are merely four or five flasks of deadly poison.
Where in the goblet of the nine heavens is the wine of joy? These are merely four or five flasks filled with deadly poison.
14
नाख़ुन करें हैं ज़ख़्मों को दो दो मिला के एक
थे आठ दस सो हो गए अब छिल के चार पाँच
My fingernails merge every wound, joining two into one; once eight or ten, now scratched raw, only four or five remain.
Fingernails are merging wounds by joining two into one; the eight or ten wounds that were once there have now been scratched raw into just four or five.
15
गर अंजुम-ए-फ़लक से भी तादाद कीजिए
निकलें ज़ियादा दाग़ मिरे दिल के चार पाँच
Were you to tally every star across the heavens high, / The scars upon my wounded heart would outnumber them by four or five.
Even if you count and compare them with all the stars in the sky, the wounds on my heart would still turn out to be four or five more.
16
मारें जो सर पे सिल को उठा कर क़लक़ से हम
दस पाँच टुकड़े सर के हों और सिल के चार पाँच
Were I to lift and strike a heavy stone upon my head in bitter grief, ten or five pieces would my skull become, and of the rock some four or five.
If in extreme sorrow I were to lift a heavy slab of stone and strike it on my head, my head would break into ten or five pieces, and the rock itself into four or five.
17
मान ऐ 'ज़फ़र' तू पंज-तन ओ चार-यार को
हैं सदर-ए-दीन की यही महफ़िल के चार पाँच
Honor, O Zafar, both the Sacred Five and the Companions Four; for in the high assembly of the Faith, exalted are these four or five.
O Zafar, honor both the Panjtan (the Holy Five) and the Char Yaar (the Four Companions), for indeed these are the principal leaders of the assembly of the faith.
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