Tughluqabad

Akbar's tomb at Sikandra, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 63

2 divan verses (out of 7); rhyming elements: ang āḳhir
composed 1816; Arshi #60

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{63,1}

ṣafā-e ḥairat-e āʾīnah hai sāmān-e zang āḳhir
taġhayyur āb-e bar-jā-māñdah kā pātā hai rang āḳhir

{63,2}

nah kī sāmān-e ʿaish-o-jāh ne tadbīr vaḥshat kī
huʾā jām-e zumurrud bhī mujhe dāġh-e palang āḳhir

Some unpublished verses from this ghazal:

{63,3x}

hilāl āsā tihī rah gar kushādan'hā-e dil chāhe
huʾa mah kaṡrat-e sarmāyah-andozī se tang āḳhir

{63,4x}

asad pīrī meñ bhī āhang-e shauq-e yār qāʾim hai
nahīñ hai naġhme se ḳhālī ḳhamīdan'hā-e chang āḳhir