Ghazal
ख़ुद नवेद-ए-ज़िंदगी लाई क़ज़ा मेरे लिए
This ghazal portrays death as a liberating herald of eternal peace, freeing the speaker from worldly sorrow. It conveys a poignant irony and melancholy over the indifference shown by loved ones during life compared to their grief after death.
Source: rekhta · HI
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ख़ुद नवेद-ए-ज़िंदगी लाई क़ज़ा मेरे लिए
शम-ए-कुश्ता हूँ फ़ना में है बक़ा मेरे लिए
Death itself brought glad tidings of life for me; an extinguished flame am I, in annihilation lies eternity for me.
Death itself has brought the good news of life for me; I am an extinguished candle, and my immortality lies in my destruction.
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ज़िंदगी में तो न इक दम ख़ुश किया हँस बोल कर
आज क्यूँ रोते हैं मेरे आश्ना मेरे लिए
In life, they never brought me joy with a kind word or a smile; why do my companions weep today, shedding their tears for me?
During my life, my friends never brought me joy for even a single moment by talking and smiling with me; why then are they crying for me today?
3
कुंज-ए-उज़्लत में मिसाल-ए-आसिया हूँ गोशा-गीर
रिज़्क़ पहुँचाता है घर बैठे ख़ुदा मेरे लिए
In solitude's secluded nook, like a millstone I remain; sitting right at home, God Himself provides my daily grain.
I remain secluded in the corner of solitude like a stationary grindstone, and God delivers my daily sustenance to me right at home.
4
तू सरापा अज्र ऐ ज़ाहिद मैं सर-ता-पा गुनाह
बाग़-ए-जन्नत तेरी ख़ातिर कर्बला मेरे लिए
You are virtue from head to toe, O ascetic, while I am wholly sin; The garden of Paradise is reserved for you, Karbala is meant for me.
O ascetic, you are virtue and reward from head to toe, while I am entirely made of sin; the garden of Paradise is meant for you, while Karbala is destined for me.
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नाम रौशन कर के क्यूँकर बुझ न जाता मिस्ल-ए-शम्अ'
ना-मुवाफ़िक़ थी ज़माने की हवा मेरे लिए
Having brightened my name, how could I not be snuffed out like a candle? For the winds of this age were blowing contrary to me.
Having brightened my name, how could I not be extinguished like a candle, since the winds of the world were unfavorable to me?
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हर नफ़स आईना-ए-दिल से ये आती है सदा
ख़ाक तू हो जा तो हासिल हो जिला मेरे लिए
From the mirror of the heart, with every breath, this call arises: 'Turn into dust, so that a radiant luster may be granted to me.'
With every breath, a voice arises from the mirror of the heart, saying that you should turn into dust so that luster and brilliance may be gained for me.
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ख़ाक से है ख़ाक को उल्फ़त तड़पता हूँ 'अनीस'
कर्बला के वास्ते मैं कर्बला मेरे लिए
Dust yearns for dust in tender love, in restless pain I pine, O Anees; I am destined for Karbala, and Karbala was meant for me.
Anees says that dust naturally yearns for dust, and so he restlessly longs; he is meant for Karbala, and Karbala is meant for him.
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