Tughluqabad

Agra Fort, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 200

3 divan verses (out of 8); rhyming elements: ez hai
composed 1816; Arshi #163

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{200,1}

kyūñ nah ho chashm-e butāñ maḥv-e taġhāful kyūñ nah ho
yaʿnī us bīmār ko naz̤z̤āre se parhez hai

{200,2}

marte marte dekhne kī ārzū rah jāʾegī
vāʾe nā-kāmī kih us kāfir kā ḳhanjar tez hai

{200,3}

ʿāriẓ-e gul dekh rū-e yār yād āyā asad
joshish-e faṣl-e bahārī ishtiyāq-angez hai

Some unpublished verses from this ghazal:

{200,4x}

dil sarāpā vaqf-e saudā-e nigāh-e tez hai
yih zamīñ miṡl-e nayastāñ saḳht nāvak-ḳhez hai

{200,5x}

ho sake kyā ḳhāk dast-o-bāzū-e farhād se
be-sutūñ ḳhvāb-e girān-e ḳhusrav-e parvez hai