आशिक़ों

Meaning

Lovers; those consumed by passionate love and devotion.

Detailed Meaning

In Urdu poetry, 'aashiqon' refers to devoted lovers who bear the pains, yearning, and trials of love. In this couplet, it highlights how swiftly lovers perish once afflicted by a blow to the heart, portraying their utter vulnerability and fatal surrender to passion. The word epitomizes the archetypal sufferers in the romantic cosmos of the ghazal.

Etymology

From Arabic root 'ع-ش-ق' (passionate love), yielding the active participle 'عاشق' ('āshiq, lover), combined with the Hindustani oblique plural suffix '-oñ'.

Usage

In the classical ghazal, the lover (aashiq) is the celebrated protagonist defined by steadfast loyalty, intense longing, and ultimate self-sacrifice.

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