Ghazal
फिर कुछ इक दिल को बे-क़रारी है
This ghazal explores the heart's recurring restlessness and a deep longing for emotional pain in love. The poet describes a paradoxical pleasure in heartbreak and even self-inflicted wounds, while expressing unwavering devotion towards a veiled, distant beloved. It captures the intense, often self-destructive, nature of profound affection.
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फिर कुछ इक दिल को बे-क़रारी है
सीना जूया-ए-ज़ख़्म-ए-कारी है
Again, the heart feels a certain restlessness,The chest seeks a grievous wound.
Again, the heart feels a certain restlessness. The chest is seeking a deep and grievous wound.
2
फिर जिगर खोदने लगा नाख़ुन
आमद-ए-फ़स्ल-ए-लाला-कारी है
My fingernails again begin to pierce my soul,
For the season of tulip-like wounds is at the door.
My fingernails have again started to dig into my heart/soul, for the season of making tulip-like wounds has arrived.
3
क़िब्ला-ए-मक़्सद-ए-निगाह-ए-नियाज़
फिर वही पर्दा-ए-अमारी है
The cynosure of yearning, my devoutest plea,Again behind the palanquin's curtain, see.
The object of my yearning gaze and humble prayers, the beloved, is once again behind the curtain of the palanquin. This implies they are still inaccessible or hidden from view.
4
चश्म दल्लाल-ए-जिंस-ए-रुस्वाई
दिल ख़रीदार-ए-ज़ौक़-ए-ख़्वारी है
The eye, a broker for shame's merchandise, The heart, a buyer of humiliation's delight.
The eye acts as a broker for the goods of disgrace, while the heart eagerly buys into the pleasure of humiliation.
5
वही सद-रंग नाला-फ़रसाई
वही सद-गोना अश्क-बारी है
Still the same hundred-hued lamentations,Still the same hundredfold weeping persists.
Still the same hundred-hued lamentations, and the same hundredfold weeping persists.
6
दिल हवा-ए-ख़िराम-ए-नाज़ से फिर
महशरिस्तान-ए-बेक़रारी है
My heart, by the allure of her graceful walk, is once again a land of restless, doomsday-like turmoil.
My heart, stirred by the yearning for her graceful walk, has once again become a turbulent realm of extreme restlessness, akin to the chaos of a doomsday gathering.
7
जल्वा फिर अर्ज़-ए-नाज़ करता है
रोज़ बाज़ार-ए-जाँ-सिपारी है
Once more, beauty displays its charm;Every day is a market for life's sacrifice.
Beauty once again displays its charm; every day is a market for sacrificing life.
8
फिर उसी बेवफ़ा पे मरते हैं
फिर वही ज़िंदगी हमारी है
Again, for that unfaithful one, we pine,Again, that very same life is mine.
We are once again consumed by love for that unfaithful person, and it seems this very same kind of life, marked by such devotion, is our destiny.
9
फिर खुला है दर-ए-अदालत-ए-नाज़
गर्म-बाज़ार-ए-फ़ौजदारी है
Again, the door to the court of coquetry is open,A bustling market of litigation it is now.
Again, the door to the court of coquetry is open, and it is a bustling market of litigation.
10
हो रहा है जहान में अंधेर
ज़ुल्फ़ की फिर सिरिश्ता-दारी है
The world is plunged in darkness, chaos reigns,For once again, your tangled tresses hold the reins.
Darkness is spreading in the world, because once again, your tresses are taking charge.
11
फिर दिया पारा-ए-जिगर ने सवाल
एक फ़रियाद ओ आह-ओ-ज़ारी है
Once more, my wounded heart expressed its plea;It is only a cry, a lament, and a wail.
Once more, my wounded heart has presented a plea, which is solely a cry, a lament, and a wail.
12
फिर हुए हैं गवाह-ए-इश्क़ तलब
अश्क-बारी का हुक्म-जारी है
Once more, love's witnesses are summoned,The decree for tear-shedding is commanded.
Once again, the witnesses of love have been summoned. The command for shedding tears has been issued.
13
दिल ओ मिज़्गाँ का जो मुक़द्दमा था
आज फिर उस की रू-बकारी है
That case between the heart and eyelashes, is today brought up for hearing once more.
That case between the heart and eyelashes, is today brought up for hearing once more.
14
बे-ख़ुदी बे-सबब नहीं 'ग़ालिब'
कुछ तो है जिस की पर्दा-दारी है
Ghalib, this rapture is not without a reason, There is something that is being concealed.
Ghalib, this state of ecstasy or self-forgetfulness is not without a reason. There is certainly something that is being concealed.
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