Ghazal
Paani Tabeeb De Hai Hamein Kya Bujha Hua
paani tabeeb de hai hamein kya bujha hua
Source: Deewan-e-Zauq (1923) · HI
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1
पानी तबीब दे है हमें क्या बुझा हुआ
है दिल ही ज़िंदगी से हमारा बुझा हुआ
What water does the healer give us, already quenched and cold—
It is the heart itself that's weary of this life, its embers gone.
What cold, lifeless water does the physician offer us; it is truly our heart itself that has been extinguished by this life.
2
कहते थे आफ़्ताब-ए-क़यामत जिसे सो वो
निकला चराग़-ए-दाग़-ए-दिल अपना बुझा हुआ
That which they called the blazing sun of Judgment Day—
it turned out but the lamp of my heart's scar, burnt out and gone.
That which people called the sun of Doomsday turned out to be nothing but the extinguished lamp of my heart's scar.
3
चश्म-ए-ग़ज़ब से नीम-निगह मेरे वास्ते
एक ग़ुंचा है ज़हर में गोया बुझा हुआ
From those wrathful eyes, one half-glance cast my way—
it is, as it were, a bud dipped and steeped in poison.
A half-glance thrown my way from those angry eyes is, as it were, a flower-bud that has been dipped and steeped in poison.
4
फिर दिल में आह-ए-सर्द हुई मेरे शोला-ज़न
लो फिर भबक उठा ये फ़तीला बुझा हुआ
Again the cold sigh flared aflame within my heart—
behold, this extinguished wick has blazed up once more.
Once again a cold sigh, kindling flames, arose in my heart; behold, this extinguished wick has flared up anew.
5
पहले निशाना करता वो बंदूक़ का मुझे
पर था मिरे नसीब में तोड़ा बुझा हुआ
First he would take aim at me with his gun,
but in my fate was written only a broken, spent flint.
First he would aim his gun at me, but in my fate there was only a broken, extinguished flint.
6
जलकर अगर बुझा भी दिल-ए-सोख़्ता मगर
तो फिर जलेगा जैसे कि कोयला बुझा हुआ
Though the burnt-out heart may quench itself by burning away,
yet it shall blaze again, like a coal once put out.
Even if this burnt heart is extinguished after burning, it will catch fire once more, just like a coal that had been put out.
7
हम आप जल बुझे मगर इस दिल की आग को
सीने में हमने ज़ौक़ जो पाया बुझा हुआ
We ourselves burned out and were quenched, yet, as for this heart's fire,
O Zauq, the moment I found it within my breast, it lay already extinguished.
We ourselves burned and were extinguished, yet, O Zauq, when I found this heart's fire within my breast, it was already put out.
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