Tughluqabad

Fatahpur Sikri, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 41

8 divan verses (out of 12); rhyming elements: il nahīñ rahā
composed 1816; Arshi #29

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{41,1}

ʿarẓ-e niyāz-e ʿishq ke qābil nahīñ rahā
jis dil pah nāz thā mujhe vuh dil nahīñ rahā

{41,2}

jātā hūñ dāġh-e ḥasrat-e hastī liye huʾe
hūñ shamʿ-e kushtah dar-ḳhvur-e maḥfil nahīñ rahā

{41,3}

marne kī ai dil aur hī tadbīr kar kih maiñ
shāyān-e dast-o-bāzū-e qātil nahīñ rahā

{41,4}

bar-rū-e shash jihat dar-e āʾīnah bāz hai
yāñ imtiyāz-e nāqiṣ-o-kāmil nahīñ rahā

{41,5}

vā kar diye haiñ shauq ne band-e naqāb-e ḥusn
ġhair az nigāh ab koʾī ḥāʾil nahīñ rahā

{41,6}

go maiñ rahā rahīn-e sitamhā-e rozgār
lekin tire ḳhayāl se ġhāfil nahīñ rahā

{41,7}

dil se havā-e kisht-e vafā miṭ gaʾī kih vāñ
ḥāṣil sivā-e ḥasrat-e ḥāṣil nahīñ rahā

{41,8}

bedād-e ʿishq se nahīñ ḍartā magar asad
jis dil pah nāz thā mujhe vuh dil nahīñ rahā

Some unpublished verses from this ghazal:

{41,9x}

har-chand maiñ hūñ t̤ūt̤ī-e shīrīñ-suḳhan vale
āʾīnah āh mere muqābil nahīñ rahā

{41,10x}

hūñ qat̤rah-zan bah marḥalah-e yās roz-o-shab
juz tār-e ashk jādah-e manzil nahīñ rahā