Ghazal
Ye Baat Baat Men Kya Nazuki Nikalti Hai
ये बात बात में क्या नाज़ुकी निकलती है
This ghazal highlights the delicate grace and subtle, suppressed smile of the beloved. It poignantly captures the lover's heartache and lingering affection, pleading for the torment of love to unfold gently as the fragrance of devotion still endures.
Source: rekhta · HI
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ये बात बात में क्या नाज़ुकी निकलती है
दबी दबी तिरे लब से हँसी निकलती है
What delicate grace unfolds at every word you speak, while a soft, suppressed laugh escapes your gentle lips.
What delicate grace shows in your every word, as a suppressed laugh escapes your lips.
2
ठहर ठहर के जला दिल को एक बार न फूँक
कि इस में बू-ए-मोहब्बत अभी निकलती है
Burn this heart by slow degrees, do not scorch it all at once; for the fragrance of love still rises from within.
Burn the heart slowly and do not scorch it all at once, as the fragrance of love is still emanating from it.
3
बजाए शिकवा भी देता हूँ मैं दुआ उस को
मिरी ज़बाँ से करूँ क्या यही निकलती है
Instead of a complaint, a blessing is all I bestow; what can I do, when from my lips only this will flow?
Even instead of complaining, I only offer them prayers and blessings; what can I do, for only this comes out from my tongue.
4
ख़ुशी में हम ने ये शोख़ी कभी नहीं देखी
दम-ए-इताब जो रंगत तिरी निकलती है
Never in joy have we beheld such teasing grace, as the radiant bloom that wrath brings to your face.
We have never seen such playful charm in times of joy as the glowing complexion that appears on your face in moments of anger.
5
हज़ार बार जो माँगा करो तो क्या हासिल
दुआ वही है जो दिल से कभी निकलती है
What avails it though a thousand times you plead and pray? True prayer is only that which from the heart finds its way.
Asking a thousand times is of no use, for a true prayer is only that which comes sincerely from the heart.
6
अदा से तेरी मगर खिंच रहीं हैं तलवारें
निगह निगह से छुरी पर छुरी निकलती है
Yet at your graceful airs, swords are unsheathed; and from each glance, dagger upon dagger is drawn.
Swords are being drawn at your graceful gestures, and dagger after dagger is being pulled out with your every glance.
7
मुहीत-ए-इश्क़ में है क्या उमीद ओ बीम मुझे
कि डूब डूब के कश्ती मिरी निकलती है
What place have hope and fear for me in love's all-circling sea, when sinking, drowning time and again, my boat still rises free?
In the vast ocean of love, I have no care for hope or fear, as my boat repeatedly sinks and yet somehow re-emerges.
8
झलक रही है सर-ए-शाख़-ए-मिज़ा ख़ून की बूँद
शजर में पहले समर से कली निकलती है
Upon the eyelash-branch's tip a drop of blood now gleams; for on a tree, before the fruit, a bud must first appear.
A drop of blood is glistening at the tip of the eyelash branch, just as a bud appears on a tree before the fruit.
9
शब-ए-फ़िराक़ जो खोले हैं हम ने ज़ख़्म-ए-जिगर
ये इंतिज़ार है कब चाँदनी निकलती है
In this night of separation, having laid bare the wounds of my heart, I wait in anticipation to see when the moonlight rises.
In this night of separation, we have laid open the wounds of our heart, and now we merely wait to see when the moonlight appears.
10
समझ तो लीजिए कहने तो दीजिए मतलब
बयाँ से पहले ही मुझ पर छुरी निकलती है
At least grant me a hearing, let my intent be shown— / Before a word is uttered, against me a dagger is drawn.
At least understand and let me state my meaning; even before I can explain anything, a knife is drawn against me.
11
ये दिल की आग है या दिल के नूर का है ज़ुहूर
नफ़स नफ़स में मिरे रौशनी निकलती है
Is this the heart's fire, or the manifestation of its light? In every breath I draw, sheer radiance pours forth.
Is this the fire of the heart or the manifestation of its inner light, that radiance pours out with every breath I take?
12
कहा जो मैं ने कि मर जाऊँगा तो कहते हैं
हमारे ज़ाइचे में ज़िंदगी निकलती है
When I said that I shall die, they simply replied: 'In our horoscope, it is life that the stars decide.'
When I said that I would die, they replied that their horoscope predicts life.
13
समझने वाले समझते हैं पेच की तक़रीर
कि कुछ न कुछ तिरी बातों में फ़ी निकलती है
Those who discern can well perceive the twists of subtle speech, for in your words some hidden catch is always found to leach.
Those with understanding easily grasp complicated speech, for there is always some flaw or hidden catch found in your words.
14
दम-ए-अख़ीर तसव्वुर है किस परी-वश का
कि मेरी रूह भी बन कर परी निकलती है
In this final breath, whose fairy-faced vision holds my mind, that even my soul departs, transformed into a fairy?
At my final breath, whose fairy-like beloved's thought is on my mind, that my soul too departs having turned into a fairy?
15
सनम-कदे में भी है हुस्न इक ख़ुदाई का
कि जो निकलती है सूरत परी निकलती है
Even in the temple of idols dwells a beauty so divine, that every face that emerges appears like a fairy.
In the temple of idols too, there is a touch of divine beauty, for whichever face emerges from there appears just like a fairy.
16
मिरे निकाले न निकलेगी आरज़ू मेरी
जो तुम निकालना चाहो अभी निकलती है
My longing will not leave though I should strive to cast it out; yet should you wish to draw it forth, this very moment it departs.
My desire will not leave merely by my efforts to cast it out, but if you wish to draw it out, it will depart right this instant.
17
ग़म-ए-फ़िराक़ में हो 'दाग़' इस क़दर बेताब
ज़रा से रंज में जाँ आप की निकलती है
So restless in the grief of parting are you, O Dāgh, that at the slightest sorrow, your very life departs.
O Dagh, you are so restless in the grief of separation that your life seems to slip away at even the slightest sorrow.
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