Ghazal
Vo Jo RuThen Yuun Manana Chahiye
वो जो रूठें यूँ मनाना चाहिए
This ghazal captures the spirit of supreme sacrifice and unconditional devotion in love. The poet suggests that pacifying a displeased beloved calls for renouncing life itself, urging the lover to bravely smile even beneath the executioner's dagger.
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वो जो रूठें यूँ मनाना चाहिए
ज़िंदगी से रूठ जाना चाहिए
If they turn away estranged, here is how they must be wooed: from life itself, one ought to turn away in solitude.
If the beloved gets displeased, the way to appease them is that one should turn away from life itself.
2
हिम्मत-ए-क़ातिल बढ़ाना चाहिए
ज़ेर-ए-ख़ंजर मुस्कुराना चाहिए
One must embolden the assassin's heart; beneath the dagger's edge, one ought to smile.
One should bolster the courage of the killer; one ought to smile even while beneath the dagger.
3
ज़िंदगी है नाम जोहद ओ जंग का
मौत क्या है भूल जाना चाहिए
Life is but another name for struggle and strife; what death might be, ought to be forgotten.
Life is another name for continuous effort and struggle, and one ought to completely forget what death is.
4
है इन्हीं धोकों से दिल की ज़िंदगी
जो हसीं धोका हो खाना चाहिए
It is on such sweet deceptions that the heart's life depends; if an illusion is beautiful, one ought to be willingly deceived.
The life of the heart is sustained by these very illusions; if a deception is beautiful, one ought to willingly be deceived by it.
5
लज़्ज़तें हैं दुश्मन-ए-औज-ए-कमाल
कुल्फ़तों से जी लगाना चाहिए
Pleasures are the sworn foes of perfection's zenith; it is with hardships that the heart must fall in love.
Pleasures are the enemies of reaching the heights of perfection, so one ought to embrace hardships and afflictions instead.
6
उन से मिलने को तो क्या कहिए 'जिगर'
ख़ुद से मिलने को ज़माना चाहिए
What to speak of meeting the beloved, O Jigar; it takes an entire age just to meet oneself.
O Jigar, what can one even say about meeting the beloved, when it takes an entire age just to meet and understand oneself.
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