FWP:
SETS
GRANDIOSITY: {5,3}
PROPORTIONALITY: {6,4}
For background see S. R. Faruqi's choices. This verse is NOT one of his choices; I thought it was interesting and have added it myself. For more on Ghalib's unpublished verses, see the discussion in {4,8x}.
On the nature of do-((aalam expressions, see {18,2}.
Unsurprisingly, the commentators evoke the pathetic situation of the half-crazed, hypersensitive lover, so vulnerable to his own anxieties that the smallest fancy or apprehension (see the definition above) causes him a cosmic, 'two-worlds' kind of grief.
But equally unsurprisingly (to 'do justice' to my own 'temperament' as a commentator), I have a much more extravagant and thrilling interpretation to offer. My proof-text is the brilliant {5,4}, in which merely 'somewhat of a thought of madness' passed through the lover's mind-- and the desert burned up. Here too, in view of the meaning of naazukii as 'touchiness' or 'testiness', and the versatile but powerful nature of do-((aalam expressions (see {18,2}), it's possible that the lover's grief was equally potent. A single morbid notion-- possibly quite groundless-- entered his irritable head, and the result was a grief that spiralled outward and overtook the 'two worlds'.
Asi:
Oh Asad, please recognize the sensitivity of the temperament of longing, and do it justice, for over a single weak fancy/apprehension, the burden/heaviness of both worlds lies fallen.
Or else this: that 'Oh Asad, I swear by the sensitivity of the justice-longing (?) temperament, that I am a single weak fancy on whom there is the burden of both worlds'.
== Asi, p. 296