Word Meaning
शेफ़्तगी
sheftagī
Meaning
Infatuation, intense love, enamored state, or madness of passion.
Detailed Meaning
Sheftagi signifies the state of being utterly enamored, captivated, or madly in love. In this couplet, it is elevated to an exalted official post or spiritual rank ('mansab'), which no one else possesses the nobility or endurance to occupy after the speaker. It denotes not just attraction, but a total surrender of the self to passion.
Etymology
Persian, derived from 'shefta' (enamored, infatuated, mad) with the abstract noun suffix '-gi'.
Usage
In classical Urdu ghazal, sheftagi represents an exalted condition of obsessive devotion and romantic delirium, often counterposed with worldly intellect.
Examples
His heart was consumed by the depths of sheftagi.
Such sheftagi leaves no room for worldly reason.