Ghazal
तेरे भाई को चाहा अब तेरी करता हूँ पा-बोसी
This ghazal captures a playful and audacious mood of romantic banter. The speaker humorously professes an ancestral devotion to the beloved, blending domestic metaphors with witty and affectionate pleading.
Source: rekhta · HI
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तेरे भाई को चाहा अब तेरी करता हूँ पा-बोसी
मुझे सरताज कर रख जान में आशिक़ हूँ मौरूसी
I loved your brother once, and now I bow to kiss your feet; crown me the sovereign of your soul, an ancestral lover complete.
First I loved your brother, and now I kiss your feet in devotion; crown me as your sovereign, my darling, for I am your hereditary lover.
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रफ़ू कर दे हैं ऐसा प्यार जो आशिक़ हैं यकसू सीं
फड़ा कर और सीं शाल अपनी कहता है मुझे तू सी
Such tender care do steadfast lovers show in every mend and seam; tearing his shawl anew, he bids me: 'Stitch this up for me!'
Devoted lovers express their affection in such a way that he tears his shawl in another place on purpose and asks me to sew it for him.
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हुआ मख़्फ़ी मज़ा अब शाहिदी सीं शहद की ज़ाहिर
मगर ज़ंबूर ने शीरीनी उन होंटों की जा चूसी
The hidden sweetness of the honey now stands openly revealed— / Has a wasp perchance gone by and sucked the nectar of those lips?
The hidden sweetness of honey has now become evident through proof, as if a wasp or bee has gone and sucked the sweetness from those lips.
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किसे ये ताब जो उस की तजल्ली में रहे ठहरा
रुमूज़-ए-तौर लाती है सजन तेरी कमर मू सी
Who has the strength to stand steadfast before that dazzling radiance? / Beloved, your waist, slender as a hair, evokes the mystic secrets of Mount Sinai.
Who possesses the strength to remain steadfast before that divine radiance? Beloved, your waist, as slender as a hair, evokes the mysteries of Mount Sinai.
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समाता नईं इज़ार अपने में अबतर देख रंग उस का
करे किम-ख़्वाब सो जाने की यूँ पाते हैं जासूसी
Seeing its disheveled state, the trousers can scarce contain their plight; / Thus in brocade—the sleepless cloth—they spy out slumber tonight.
Seeing its wretched state, the trousers cannot contain itself; in this way, they catch the brocade spying by pretending to fall asleep.
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ब-रंग-ए-शम्अ क्यूँ याक़ूब की आँखें नहीं रौशन
ज़माने में सुना यूसुफ़ का पैराहन था फ़ानूसी
Why were Jacob's eyes not kindled bright as a candle's glow? / For Joseph's robe, the world had heard, was a lantern long ago.
Why are Jacob's eyes not illuminated like a candle, when it was heard throughout the world that Joseph's shirt was like a lantern?
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न छोड़ूँ उस लब-ए-इरफ़ाँ को 'नाजी' और लुटा दूँ सब
मिले गर मुझ को मुल्क-ए-ख़ुसरवी और ताज-ए-काऊसी
I would not forsake those lips of gnosis, O Naji, and would squander all renown, even were I bestowed the realm of Khusrau and Kay Kavus's imperial crown.
O Naji, even if I were granted the empire of Khusrau and the crown of Kay Kavus, I would give up everything but never abandon those lips of spiritual wisdom.
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