Ghazal
मैं और बज़्म-ए-मय से यूँ तिश्ना-काम आऊँ
This renowned ghazal by Mirza Ghalib masterfully blends wit, subtle irony, and poignant melancholy to reflect on unfulfilled desires and the agony of love. Using the classic motifs of the tavern and the cupbearer (Saqi), the poet laments his unslaked thirst and ponders the inseparable bond of suffering between the heart and soul.
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मैं और बज़्म-ए-मय से यूँ तिश्ना-काम आऊँ
गर मैं ने की थी तौबा साक़ी को क्या हुआ था
That I should leave the gathering of wine still parched and dry? / Even if I had vowed to abstain, what had possessed the cupbearer?
How could I possibly return thirsty from the gathering of wine? Even if I had taken a vow of abstinence, what was wrong with the cupbearer that he did not serve me?
2
है एक तीर जिस में दोनों छिदे पड़े हैं
वो दिन गए कि अपना दिल से जिगर जुदा था
Upon a single arrow pierced, together now both lie; gone are the days when my heart and liver lived their separate sigh.
A single arrow has pierced both my heart and liver together; gone are the days when the heart and liver were separate from each other.
3
दरमांदगी में 'ग़ालिब' कुछ बन पड़े तो जानूँ
जब रिश्ता बे-गिरह था नाख़ुन गिरह-कुशा था
If in helplessness, Ghalib, you accomplish something, only then will I believe; for when the thread had no knot, your fingernail was famed for untying.
O Ghalib, I will acknowledge your skill only if you accomplish something in helplessness; back when the thread had no knot at all, your fingernail used to claim it could untie knots.
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