Agra Fort

Fatahpur Sikri, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 9

7 divan verses (out of 9); rhyming elements: ī nah huʾā
composed 1821; Arshi #7

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{9,1}

dahr meñ naqsh-e vafā vaj'h-e tasallī nah huʾā
hai yih vuh lafz̤ kih sharmindah-e maʿnī nah huʾā

{9,2}

sabzah-e ḳhat̤ se tirā kākul-e sar-kash nah dabā
yih zumurrud bhī ḥarīf-e dam-e afʿī nah huʾā

{9,3}

maiñ ne chāhā thā kih andoh-e vafā se chhūṭūñ
vuh sitamgar mire marne pah bhī rāẓī nah huʾā

{9,4}

dil guzar-gāh-e ḳhayāl-e mai-o-sāġhar hī sahī
gar nafas jādah-e sar-manzil-e taqvī nah huʾā

{9,5}

hūñ tire vaʿdah nah karne meñ bhī rāẓī kih kabhī
gosh minnat-kash-e gulbāñg-e tasallī nah huʾā

{9,6}

kis se maḥrūmī-e qismat kī shikāyat kīje
ham ne chāhā thā kih mar jāʾeñ so vuh bhī nah huʾā

{9,7}

mar gayā ṣadmah-e yak-junbish-e lab se ġhālib
nā-tavānī se ḥarīf-e dam-e ʿīsī nah huʾā

The unpublished verses from this ghazal:

{9,8x}

nah huʾī ham se raqam ḥairat-e ḳhat̤t̤-e ruḳh-e yār
ṣafḥah-e āʾinah jaulāñ-gah-e t̤ūt̤ī nah huʾā

{9,9x}

vusʿat-e raḥmat-e ḥaq dekh kih baḳhshā jāve
mujh sā kāfir kih jo mamnūn-e maʿāṣī nah huʾā