Tughluqabad

Agra Fort, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 141

7 divan verses (out of 8); rhyming elements: āl hai
composed 1821; Arshi #138

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{141,1}

gar ḳhāmushī se fāʾidah iḳhfā-e ḥāl hai
ḳhvush hūñ kih merī bāt samajhnī muḥāl hai

{141,2}

kis ko sunāʾūñ ḥasrat-e iz̤hār kā gilah
dil fard-e jamʿ-o-ḳharj-e zabāñhā-e lāl hai

{141,3}

kis parde meñ hai āʾinah-pardāz ai ḳhudā
raḥmat kih ʿużr-ḳhvāh-e lab-e be-savāl hai

{141,4}

hai hai ḳhudā nah ḳhvāstah vuh aur dushmanī
ai shauq-e munfaʿil yih tujhe kyā ḳhayāl hai

{141,5}

mushkīñ libās-e kaʿbah ʿalī ke qadam se jān
nāf-e zamīn hai nah kih nāf-e ġhazāl hai

{141,6}

vaḥshat pah merī ʿarṣah-e āfāq tang thā
daryā zamīn ko ʿaraq-e infiʿāl hai

{141,7}

hastī ke mat fareb meñ ā jāʾiyo asad
ʿālam tamām ḥalqah-e dām-e ḳhayāl hai

The unpublished verse from this ghazal:

{141,8x}

pahlū tihī nah kar ġham-o-andoh se asad
dil vaqf-e dard rakh kih faqīroñ kā māl hai