Tughluqabad

Agra Fort, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 154

4 divan verses (out of 7); rhyming elements: ālī ne mujhe
composed after 1821; Arshi #185

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{154,1}

garm-e faryād rakhā shakl-e nihālī ne mujhe
tab amāñ hijr meñ dī bard-e liyālī ne mujhe

{154,2}

nisyah-o-naqd-e do-ʿālam kī ḥaqīqat maʿlūm
le liyā mujh se mirī himmat-e ʿālī ne mujhe

{154,3}

kaṡrat-ārāʾī-e vaḥdat hai parastārī-e vahm
kar diyā kāfir in aṣnām-e ḳhayālī ne mujhe

{154,4}

havas-e gul ke taṣavvur meñ bhī khaṭkā nah rahā
ʿajab ārām diyā be-par-o-bālī ne mujhe

The unpublished verses from this ghazal:

{154,5x}

zindagī meñ bhī rahā żauq-e fanā kā mārā
nashshah baḳhshā ġhaẓab us sāġhar-e ḳhālī ne mujhe

{154,6x}

baskih thī faṣl-e ḳhizān-e chamanistān-e suḳhan
rang-e shuhrat nah diyā tāzah-ḳhayālī ne mujhe

{154,7x}

jalvah-e ḳhvur se fanā hotī hai shabnam ġhālib
kho diyā sat̤vat-e asmā-e jalālī ne mujhe