Ghazal
हुआ ज़ाहिर ख़त-ए-रू-ए-निगार आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता
This ghazal delicately celebrates the gradual blossoming of the beloved's youth and beauty, likening it to the gentle arrival of spring in a garden. Through the refrain of patience and progression, the poet captures how love unfolds over time and how the beloved's elusive heart is slowly won over.
Source: rekhta · HI
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हुआ ज़ाहिर ख़त-ए-रू-ए-निगार आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता
कि ज्यूँ गुलशन में आती है बहार आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता
The soft down appeared upon the beloved's cheek, gentle and slow; just as into the garden steals the spring, gentle and slow.
The fine down on the beloved's face appeared gradually, just as spring slowly arrives in a garden.
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किया हूँ रफ़्ता रफ़्ता राम उस की चश्म-ए-वहशी कूँ
कि ज्यूँ आहू कूँ करते हैं शिकार आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता
Slowly, step by step, I have tamed her wild and startled gaze—just as a deer is stalked and hunted, ever so softly, slow and sure.
I have slowly tamed her wild and startled eyes, just as a deer is patiently and gradually hunted down.
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जो अपने तन कूँ मिस्ल-ए-जूएबार अव्वल किया पानी
हुआ उस सर्व-क़द सूँ हम-कनार आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता
The one who first dissolved his being like a flowing stream / Came slowly, softly to embrace that cypress-tall beloved.
Whoever first dissolved their body into water like a flowing stream gradually came to embrace that cypress-tall beloved.
4
बरंग-ए-क़तरा-ए-सीमाब मेरे दिल की जुम्बिश सूँ
हुआ है दिल सनम का बे-क़रार आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता
Like a drop of quicksilver stirred by my heart's trembling beat, my beloved's heart, too, grew restless—slowly, bit by bit.
Like a drop of quicksilver, due to the movement and restless trembling of my heart, my beloved's heart has also gradually become restless.
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उसे कहना बजा है इश्क़ के गुलज़ार का बुलबुल
जो गुल-रूयाँ में पाया ए'तिबार आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता
Rightly is he called the nightingale of love's blossoming garden, who won by degrees the trust of rose-faced beauties.
It is completely justified to call him the nightingale of love's garden, who gradually won the trust of rose-faced beloveds.
6
मिरा दिल अश्क हो पहुँचा है कूचे में सिरीजन के
गया काबे में ये कश्ती-सवार आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता
Turned into a tear, my heart has reached the beloved's lane; like a voyager aboard a ship, it entered the Kaaba, gently and slowly.
My heart turned into a tear and reached the beloved's lane; like a passenger on a boat, it slowly arrived at the Kaaba.
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'वली' मत हासिदाँ की बात सूँ दिल कूँ मुकद्दर कर
कि आख़िर दिल सूँ जावेगा ग़ुबार आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता
O Wali, let not the words of the envious cloud your heart with dismay, / For slowly, surely, the dust of grief shall lift and drift away.
O Wali, do not let your heart become troubled by the words of the envious, for eventually the dust of this sorrow will slowly leave your heart.
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