Ghazal
Be-sabab Kyunkar Lab-e-zakhm Par Afghaan Hoga
be-sabab kyunkar lab-e-zakhm par afghaan hoga
Source: Kulliyat-e-Momin (old lithograph edition) · HI
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1
बे-सबब क्यूँकर लब-ए-ज़ख़्म पर अफ़ग़ान होगा
शोर-ए-महशर से भरा उसका नमकदान होगा
Without a cause, how could the wound's lip ever cry aloud in pain—
its salt-cellar must be brimming with the clamor of Judgment Day.
Without a cause, how could the wound's lip cry out in pain—its salt-cellar must be filled with the clamor of Judgment Day.
2
आख़िर उम्मीद ही से चारा-ए-हिर्मान होगा
मर्ग की आस पे जीना शब-ए-हिजरान होगा
In the end, it is hope alone that heals the wound of all despair;
To live upon the promise of death—such is the night of parting's bare.
In the end, only hope will remedy the wound of despair; to live on the hope of death is itself to endure the night of separation.
3
मजमा-ए-बस्ता-ए-महमिल शब-ए-अनम याद आया
ताले-ए-ख़ुफ़्ता का क्या ख़्वाब-ए-परेशाँ होगा
The gathered caravan, bound for the night of pilgrimage, came to my mind—
how troubled must the dream be of a slumbering, sleeping fortune?
The assembled, bound caravan-litter and that night of the halting-place came to my mind—how troubled must the dream be of a sleeping, slumbering fortune.
4
दिल में शौक़-ए-रुख़-ए-रौशन न छुपेगा हरगिज़
माह पर्दे में कतान के कोई पिन्हाँ होगा
The longing for that radiant face will never stay concealed within the heart—
as if the moon could ever lie hidden behind a veil of gauze.
The longing to behold that radiant face can never stay hidden in the heart—can the moon ever remain concealed behind a veil of fine gauze?
5
दर्द है जान के एवज़ हर रग-ओ-पै में सारी
चारागर हम नहीं होने के जो दरमान होगा
In every vein and sinew pain lives in place of life itself;
O healer, we are past all cure, whatever remedy may come.
In every vein and sinew only pain dwells in place of life itself; O healer, we are beyond cure, whatever remedy may come.
6
शोमी-ए-बख़्त तू ही छीन ले मेरी हशत-ए-दिल
देख ज़िन्दान है कोई न मैं बियाबान होगा
O ill-fortune, you alone, snatch away the terror of my heart;
See—there is no prison here, else I would become a wilderness.
O ill-fortune, you alone take away the terror of my heart; see, there is no prison here, otherwise I would turn into a wilderness.
7
निस्बत-ए-ऐश से हूँ नज़ा में गिर्यां यानी
है यह रोना कि दहन गोर का ख़न्दान होगा
In connection with delight, I weep in my death-throes, meaning—
this is such a weeping that the grave's mouth will break into a smile.
In connection with joy I weep in my death-throes, meaning—this weeping is such that the grave's mouth will break into a smile.
8
बात करने में रक़ीबों की ही टूट गया
दिल भी शायद उसी बद-अहद का पैमान होगा
It broke while speaking of my rivals, nothing more—
perhaps my heart, too, was that oath-breaker's pledge.
It broke merely while talking of my rivals; perhaps my heart too was nothing but a pledge of that oath-breaker.
9
चारा-जू और भी चारागरी गा नगरी
पर्दा-ए-शोख़ जो पैवन्द-ए-गरेबान होगा
The healer will seek still more remedies, O city of wounds,
When the veil of mischief becomes a patch stitched to the collar's torn seam.
The healer will seek still more remedies, O city of wounds, when the veil of mischief becomes a patch stitched to the torn seam of the collar.
10
दोस्ती उस सनम-ए-आफ़त-ए-ईमान से करे
मोमिन अब भी कोई दुश्मन-ए-ईमान होगा
Would a believer still befriend that idol, that calamity of faith?
Surely only an enemy of faith would do such a thing.
Would a believer still befriend that idol who is a calamity to faith? Surely only an enemy of faith would do such a thing.
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