Ghazal
Naalaa Is Zor Se Kyuun Miir Adhaaii Detaa
naalaa is zor se kyuun miir adhaaii detaa
Source: Deewan-e-Zauq (1923) · HI
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1
नाला इस ज़ोर से क्यों मीर अधाई देता
इसे फ़लक तू अगर मुझ को न सुनाई देता
Why, Mir, would my lament resound with such a mournful might,
Had you, O heaven, not made me hear its every piercing cry?
O heaven, why would Mir utter this lament so loudly, if you had not made me hear it.
2
देख छोटों को रहे अंधेराई देता
आसमान आँख से तिल में है दिखाई देता
Behold, it keeps on casting darkness over the small ones;
yet the whole sky is seen within a tiny sesame seed of the eye.
Behold, it keeps casting darkness over the small ones; yet the entire sky is seen within a tiny sesame-like speck of the eye.
3
लाख देता फ़लक आज़ार गवारा थे मगर
एक तेरा न मुझे दर्द-ए-जुदाई देता
A hundred torments heaven gave—those I could have borne with grace,
but this one grief of parting from you, that it should never have set in place.
Had the heavens given me a hundred torments, I would have endured them; but I wish they had never given me this one pain—the grief of being parted from you.
4
दे दुआ वादी-ए-पुर-ख़ार-ए-जुनूँ को हर गाम
दाद ये तेरी मत आबला-पाई देता
At every step bless the thorn-strewn valley of frenzy—
no other could reward this blistered wandering of yours so well.
At every step, bless the thorn-filled valley of frenzy, for no one else could have so fittingly rewarded this blistered wandering of yours.
5
पंजा-ए-मिहर को ख़ून-ए-शफ़क़ में हर सुब्ह
ख़ू बारी क्या है तेरा दस्त-ए-हिनाई देता
Each dawn the sun's own palm is drenched in the blood of twilight's glow—
what is this bloody rite but your henna-stained hand bestowing its hue?
Every morning the sun's hand is steeped in the blood-red glow of twilight—this bloody gift is bestowed by your henna-tinted hand.
6
मदवश अश्क गिरा देन गे नज़र से इक दिन
है अज़ल आँख इन से यही मुझ को सुझाई देता
Drunk with passion, one day these eyes will let their tears fall from my sight;
From the very beginning, this alone is what these eyes reveal to me.
Intoxicated with passion, one day these eyes will let their tears fall from my sight; from the very beginning, this is the only thing these eyes have shown me.
7
मैं वो हूँ सैद कि फिर इस में फँसता को आ
तू क़फ़स से मुझे सद बार रिहाई देता
I am that prey who'd come and be ensnared once more within—
though from the cage a hundred times you'd set me free again.
I am that prey who would come and get trapped in it again, even though you would release me from the cage a hundred times.
8
कौन घर आईना के आता अगर वो दिल में
ख़ाकसारों से न जारूब-ए-सफ़ाई देता
Who would have come to the mirror's house, had he dwelt within the heart,
If he had not granted the broom of cleansing to the lowly ones?
Who would come to the mirror's house if he dwelt within the heart; had he not given the broom of cleansing to the humble ones.
9
ख़ूगर-ए-नाज़ हूँ किस का कि मुझे साग़र-ए-मय
बोसा-ए-लब नहीं बे-चश्म-नुमाई देता
To whose coquetry have I grown so accustomed that even the wine-cup
will not grant me the kiss of its lip without first flashing a glance?
To whose coquetry have I grown so accustomed that even the wine-cup will not grant me the kiss of its lip without first flashing a glance.
10
मुँह से बस करते न हरगिज़ ये ख़ुदा के बंदे
गर हिर्सों को ख़ुदा सारी ख़ुदाई देता
These servants of God would never once say 'enough' from their lips,
Even if God were to grant the greedy the whole of His dominion.
These servants of God would never say 'enough'; even if God gave the greedy His entire dominion, they would still not be satisfied.
11
देख कर देखना है ज़ौक़ कि वो पर्दा-नशीन
दीदा-ए-रौज़न-ए-दिल से है दिखाई देता
To behold is but a joy, Zauq, that veiled beloved of mine
Through the eye of the heart's lattice she is seen, divine.
O Zauq, what delight it is to keep gazing upon that veiled one, for she is seen through the eye that is the lattice-window of the heart.
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