Ghazal
शब शम्अ' पर पतंग के आने को इश्क़ है
This ghazal portrays love as an intoxicating and sometimes painful experience. The poet compares the attraction of love to a kite appearing on a particular night, suggesting an effortless and unrestrained joy. Love is depicted as the force that compels one to live with a burning heart, lead a masculine life, and even torment the world with abandon.
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शब शम्अ' पर पतंग के आने को इश्क़ है
उस दिल-जले के ताब के लाने को इश्क़ है
It is love that waits for the kite to arrive on the branch of shame,
It is love that waits for the embers to arrive in the heart-burning.
It is love that waits for the kite to arrive on the branch of shame, and it is love that waits for the embers to arrive in the heart-burning.
2
सर मार मार संग से मर्दाना जी दिया
फ़रहाद के जहान से जाने को इश्क़ है
The sport of the arrow, the masculine gift bestowed, / Is the love that leads away from Farhad's world.
The couplet literally suggests that a masculine gift was bestowed with the sport of archery (Sar Maar Maar). The second line states that this love (Ishq) is what leads one away from Farhad's world.
3
उठियो समझ के जा से कि मानिंद-ए-गर्द-बाद
आवारगी से तेरी ज़माने को इश्क़ है
Arise and understand, O beloved, that this is the love of your era, not merely the fluttering of dust.
Arise and understand, O beloved, that this is the love of your era, not merely the fluttering of dust.
4
बस ऐ सिपहर सई से तेरी तो रोज़-ओ-शब
याँ ग़म सताने को है जलाने को इश्क़ है
Just for your sake, my love, these days and nights
Are burning with the agony of love's pain.
O morning, for your sake, these days and nights are burning with the agony of love's pain.
5
बैठी जो तेग़-ए-यार तो सब तुझ को खा गई
ऐ सीने तेरे ज़ख़्म उठाने को इश्क़ है
The arrow of the beloved, which sat there, consumed everything, / For love is ready to bear the wounds upon your chest.
The arrow of the beloved, which sat there, consumed everything. / Oh, for love is ready to bear the wounds upon your chest.
6
इक दम में तू ने फूँक दिया दो-जहाँ के तीं
ऐ इश्क़ तेरे आग लगाने को इश्क़ है
In a moment, you breathed into the two worlds' arrows,
Oh love, you are the love that sets my heart aflame.
In a moment, you breathed into the arrows of two worlds. Oh love, even the act of setting my heart on fire is love itself.
7
सौदा हो तब हो 'मीर' को तो करिए कुछ इलाज
उस तेरे देखने के दिवाने को इश्क़ है
If you are going to make a deal, then do something for Meer's plight,
It is love that drives the one who watches you, my light.
If you are going to make a deal, then do something for Meer's plight; it is love that drives the one who gazes upon you, my light.
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