Tughluqabad

Agra Fort, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 164

14 divan verses (out of 14); rhyming elements: ārī hai
composed after 1816; Arshi #188

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{164,1}

phir kuchh ik dil ko beqarārī hai
sīnah jūyā-e zaḳhm-e kārī hai

{164,2}

phir jigar khodne lagā nāḳhun
āmad-e faṣl-e lālah-kārī hai

{164,3}

qiblah-e maqṣad-e nigāh-e niyāz
phir vuhī pardah-e ʿamārī hai

{164,4}

chashm dallāl-e jins-e rusvāʾī
dil ḳharīdār-e żauq-e ḳhvārī hai

{164,5}

vohī ṣad-rang nālah-farsāʾī
vohī ṣad-gūnah ashk-bārī hai

{164,6}

dil havā-e ḳhirām-e nāz se phir
maḥsharistān-e be-qarārī hai

{164,7}

jalvah phir ʿarẓ-e nāz kartā hai
roz-e bāzār-e jāñ-sipārī hai

{164,8}

phir usī be-vafā pah marte haiñ
phir vuhī zindagī hamārī hai

{164,9}

This verse is the beginning of a verse-set that includes {164, 9-13}.

phir khulā hai dar-e ʿadālat-e nāz
garm-bāzār-e faujdārī hai

{164,10}

ho rahā hai jahān meñ andher
zulf kī phir sarishtah-dārī hai

{164,11}

phir diyā pārah-e jigar ne savāl
ek faryād-o-āh-o-zārī hai

{164,12}

phir huʾe haiñ gavāh-e ʿishq t̤alab
ashk-bārī kā ḥukm jārī hai

{164,13}

dil-o-mizhgāñ kā jo muqaddamah thā
āj phir us kī rūbakārī hai

{164,14}

be-ḳhvudī be-sabab nahīñ ġhālib
kuchh to hai jis kī pardah-dārī hai