FWP:
SETS == WORDPLAY
This verse marks the beginning of a two-verse verse-set that includes {189,9-10}. Many editors, including Hamid, not only don't mark this verse-set, but also reverse the order of the final two verses of the ghazal, no doubt because it's unusual for the pen-name to appear in the penultimate verse. As always, I follow Arshi. And I do so all the more willingly because the other verse, {189,10}, so clearly follows the same train of thought as this one.
On the grammar of dekhaa chaahiye , see {1,3}.
The wonderfully protean .suurat (see the definition above) is a word that ranges constantly from the physical ('face') through the all-purpose ('aspect') to the abstract ('state of affairs'). And here the second line is so vague, yet so charged and forceful-- it's really a moral imperative, something like 'ought to be seen'-- that the whole effect is to call attention to the crucial importance of .suurat (with of course the wordplay of 'looking at' (a face) as a piquant reminder of its literal meaning).
But what is it exactly about the first line that demands the disdainful, exclamatory corrective of the second line? Here are some possibilities:
=You want fine-faced ones-- but your own face is 'worth
seeing', for the sheer contrast with such beauty.
=You want fine-faced ones-- how do you have the 'face' to (or, the nerve
to; or, the gall to) aspire so high?!
=You want fine-faced ones-- but your 'situation' or 'condition' renders that aspiration absurd.
=You present yourself as a lover-- you, in the 'guise' or 'semblance' of a
lover, are a sight worth seeing!
=You aspire to be a lover-- let's see how your 'plan', your
'idea', turns out!
And so on, and so on. One good verse for comparison: {161,1}, in which .suurat plays an almost equally protean role in making the verse slippery and multivalent. Another verse from the same ghazal is {161,10}, in which mu;Nh is used in the same idiomatically disdainful way that .suurat is in the present verse.
But then, this verse is also the beginning of a verse-set;
so it should also be read in conjunction with {189,10}.
Nazm:
When some individual would seek to transgress beyond his limit, then to chasten him they say, 'Just look at your 'face' [;zaraa mu;Nh to dekho]-- is this worthy of that?!'. (211)
== Nazm page 211