Tughluqabad

Agra Fort, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 194

6 divan verses (out of 9); rhyming elements ār-e bistar hai
composed 1816; Arshi #160

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{194,1}

tapish se merī vaqf-e kashmakash har tār-e bistar hai
mirā sar ranj-e bālīñ hai mirā tan bār-e bistar hai

{194,2}

sirishk-e sar bah ṣaḥrā dādah nūr ul-ʿain-e dāman hai
dil-e be-dast-o-pā uftādah bar-ḳhvurdār-e bistar hai

{194,3}

ḳhvushā iqbāl-e ranjūrī ʿiyādat ko tum āʾe ho
furoġh-e shamʿ-e bālīñ t̤ālaʿ-e bedār-e bistar hai

{194,4}

bah t̤ūfāñ-gāh-e josh-e iẓt̤irāb-e shām-e tanhāʾī
shuʿāʿ-e āftāb-e ṣubḥ-e maḥshar tār-e bistar hai

{194,5}

abhī ātī hai bū bālish se us kī zulf-e mushkīñ kī
hamārī dīd ko ḳhvāb-e zulaiḳhā ʿār-e bistar hai

{194,6}

kahūñ kyā dil kī kyā ḥālat hai hijr-e yār meñ ġhālib
kih betābī se har yak tār-e bistar ḳhār-e bistar hai

An unpublished verse from this ghazal:

{194,7x}

mizhah farsh-e rah-o-dil nātavān-o-ārzū muẓt̤ar
bah pā-e ḳhuftah sair-e vādī-e pur-ḳhār-e bistar hai