Ghazal
वो फ़िराक़ और वो विसाल कहाँ
This ghazal laments the disappearance of intense past experiences of love, both its painful separations and joyful unions. The poet questions where those passionate days and nights have gone, and laments the lack of leisure or inclination for the pursuit of love and the appreciation of beauty in the present time. It conveys a poignant sense of nostalgia and the fading of youthful fervor.
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वो फ़िराक़ और वो विसाल कहाँ
वो शब-ओ-रोज़ ओ माह-ओ-साल कहाँ
Where are those partings and those unions gone?Where are those nights and days, those months and years gone?
Where are those past moments of separation and reunion, and where have those nights, days, months, and years gone? It expresses a lament for a bygone era and lost experiences.
2
फ़ुर्सत-ए-कारोबार-ए-शौक़ किसे
ज़ौक़-ए-नज़्ज़ारा-ए-जमाल कहाँ
Who has the leisure for passion's grand design?Where is the zest to view beauty divine?
Who has the leisure for the complex affairs of passion and love? And where is the zest or delight left to truly behold beauty?
3
दिल तो दिल वो दिमाग़ भी न रहा
शोर-ए-सौदा-ए-ख़त्त-ओ-ख़ाल कहाँ
Not just the heart, that very mind has lost its spark,Where is the clamorous madness for each beauty's mark?
Not just the heart, but even the mind has lost its fervor. Where is that passionate clamor for the beloved's moles and facial features now?
4
थी वो इक शख़्स के तसव्वुर से
अब वो रानाई-ए-ख़याल कहाँ
That beauty once sprung from the thought of a single soul,Where now resides such fresh splendor of imagination?
That beauty originated from the imagination of a single person. Now, where is such splendor of thought?
5
ऐसा आसाँ नहीं लहू रोना
दिल में ताक़त जिगर में हाल कहाँ
To weep tears of blood, it is not so easy;Where is such power in the heart, such endurance in the soul?
It's not so easy to cry tears of blood. Where is such strength in the heart, or such capacity (fortitude) in the liver (courage) to endure and express such profound sorrow?
6
हम से छूटा क़िमार-ख़ाना-ए-इश्क़
वाँ जो जावें गिरह में माल कहाँ
I have abandoned the gambling-den of love; Should I go there, where is wealth in my knot (purse)?
The gambling house of love is now forsaken by us. If we go there now, where is the wealth (capital) in our pocket (to gamble)?
7
फ़िक्र-ए-दुनिया में सर खपाता हूँ
मैं कहाँ और ये वबाल कहाँ
I wear out my head in worldly thought,Where am I, and where these troubles brought?
I exhaust myself with worldly concerns. Where am I, and where is this burden/calamity? (Implies a sense of disconnect or unsuitability for such troubles).
8
मुज़्महिल हो गए क़वा ग़ालिब
वो अनासिर में ए'तिदाल कहाँ
My faculties have weakened, Ghalib; Where is the equilibrium in my elements now?
O Ghalib, my physical and mental faculties have become debilitated. Where is that balance and moderation among the constituent elements of my being now?
9
बोसे में वो मुज़ाइक़ा न करे
पर मुझे ताक़त-ए-सवाल कहाँ
She might not object to a kiss, but where is my strength to ask?
She might not refuse a kiss, but where do I possess the strength to even ask for one?
10
फ़लक-ए-सिफ़्ला बे-मुहाबा है
इस सितम-गर को इंफ़िआल कहाँ
This lowly sky, it is utterly shameless;Where is the remorse for this oppressor?
This lowly sky is utterly shameless; where would this oppressor feel any remorse?
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