Tughluqabad

Red Fort, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 166

5 divan verses (out of 10); rhyming element: ar kī
composed 1816; Arshi #143

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{166,1}

nikohish hai sazā faryādī-e be-dād-e dilbar kī
mabādā ḳhandah-e dandāñ-numā ho ṣubḥ maḥshar kī

{166,2}

rag-e lailâ ko ḳhāk-e dasht-e majnūñ reshagī baḳhshe
agar bove bajā-e dānah dihqāñ nok nashtar kī

{166,3}

par-e parvānah shāyad bādbān-e kishtī-e mai thā
huʾī majlis kī garmī se ravānī daur-e sāġhar kī

{166,4}

karūñ be-dād-e żauq-e par-fishānī ʿarẓ kyā qudrat
kih t̤āqat uṛ gaʾī uṛne se pahle mere shah-par kī

{166,5}

kahāñ tak roʾūñ us ke ḳhaime ke pīchhe qiyāmat hai
mirī qismat meñ yā rab kyā nah thī dīvār patthar kī

Some unpublished verses from this ghazal:

{166,6x}

bah juz dīvānagī hotā nah anjām-e ḳhvud-ārāʾī
agar paidā nah kartā āʾinah zanjīr jauhar kī

{166,7x}

asad juz āb baḳhshīdan z daryā ḳhiẓr ko kyā thā
ḍubotā chashmah-e ḥaivāñ meñ gar kishtī sikandar kī