Ghazal
बाक़ी जहाँ में क़ैस न फ़रहाद रह गया
This ghazal reflects on the transient nature of mortal life, lamenting that nothing remains of legendary lovers like Qais and Farhad except their enduring tales. With a melancholic and philosophical tone, it highlights the lover's extraordinary resilience and suffering in the face of love and mortality.
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बाक़ी जहाँ में क़ैस न फ़रहाद रह गया
अफ़्साना आशिक़ों का फ़क़त याद रह गया
Neither Qais nor Farhad remains within this world; only the legend of the lovers lingers in memory.
Neither Qais nor Farhad remained in this world; only the story of these lovers has been left behind in memory.
2
ये सख़्त-जाँ तो क़त्ल से नाशाद रह गया
ख़ंजर चला तो बाज़ू-ए-जल्लाद रह गया
This stubborn soul remained deprived of death's sweet thrill; the dagger struck, but the executioner's arm lost its will.
This tough-lived soul remained unsatisfied with being killed, because as the dagger struck, the executioner's arm grew weary and stopped.
3
पाबंदियों ने इश्क़ की बेकस रखा मुझे
मैं सौ असीरियों में भी आज़ाद रह गया
The fetters of love kept me helpless and bound; yet amidst a hundred captivities, free I remained.
The restrictions of love kept me helpless, yet despite a hundred captivities, I remained free.
4
चश्म-ए-सनम ने यूँ तो बिगाड़े हज़ार घर
इक काबा चंद रोज़ को आबाद रह गया
The idol's intoxicating glance has ruined a thousand homes, it is true; only the Kaaba remained thriving, and that but for a day or two.
The beloved's glance has ruined thousands of homes, and only the Kaaba remained inhabited, that too for merely a few days.
5
महशर में जा-ए-शिकवा किया शुक्र यार का
जो भूलना था मुझ को वही याद रह गया
On Judgment Day, in place of grievance, I offered thanks unto my love; that which I ought to have forgotten was all that lingered in my mind.
On the Day of Judgment, instead of complaining, I ended up thanking my beloved, because the very thing I was supposed to forget was all that I remembered.
6
उन की तो बन पड़ी कि लगी जान मुफ़्त हाथ
तेरी गिरह में क्या दिल-ए-नाशाद रह गया
Fortune favored them indeed, winning a life for free; what remains tied in your purse, O sorrowful heart?
Fortune favored them as they gained a life for free, but what is left in your possession now, O sorrowful heart?
7
पुर-नूर हो रहेगा ये ज़ुल्मत-कदा अगर
दिल में बुतों का शौक़-ए-ख़ुदा-दाद रह गया
This house of darkness will be bathed in radiant light, if in the heart this God-given passion for idols abides.
If this God-given love or passion for idols remains in the heart, this abode of darkness will certainly become filled with radiant light.
8
यूँ आँख उन की कर के इशारा पलट गई
गोया कि लब से हो के कुछ इरशाद रह गया
Her eyes made a fleeting sign, then turned away / As though a word reached her lips, yet remained unsaid.
Their eyes made a gesture and turned away, as though some word reached the lips but was left unsaid.
9
नासेह का जी चला था हमारी तरह मगर
उल्फ़त की देख देख के उफ़्ताद रह गया
The preacher too, like me, felt tempted by love's call, / Yet seeing its calamities, held back from the fall.
The preacher's heart too was tempted to love just like mine, but observing the hardships and misfortunes of love, he held himself back.
10
हैं तेरे दिल में सब के ठिकाने बुरे भले
मैं ख़ानुमाँ-ख़राब ही बर्बाद रह गया
Good or bad, all found a haven in your heart; ruined and homeless, I alone was left undone.
Everyone, whether good or bad, found a place in your heart, but I alone was left homeless and completely ruined.
11
वो दिन गए कि थी मिरे सीने में कुछ ख़राश
अब दिल कहाँ है दिल का निशाँ याद रह गया
Gone are the days when in my chest there lingered an ache, a scratch; where is the heart now? Only the memory of its trace remains.
Those days are gone when there was some ache or scratch in my chest; now where is the heart, only a memory of its trace remains.
12
सूरत को तेरी देख के खिंचती है जान-ए-ख़ल्क़
दिल अपना थाम थाम के बहज़ाद रह गया
Beholding your face, the soul of creation is drawn away; clutching his heart time and again, even the master Bihzad was left undone.
Seeing your face, the life of all creation is drawn out in astonishment, and even the master painter Bihzad was left helpless, repeatedly holding his heart.
13
ऐ 'दाग़' दिल ही दिल में घुले ज़ब्त-ए-इश्क़ से
अफ़्सोस शौक़-ए-नाला-ओ-फ़रियाद रह गया
O Dagh, restrained by love, the heart dissolved within in pain; alas, the yearning to weep and wail unvoiced did still remain.
O Dagh, while restraining love's pain, the heart quietly dissolved from within; alas, the longing to lament and cry out remained unfulfilled.
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