Tughluqabad

Agra Fort, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 202

9 divan verses (out of 9); rhyming elements: ānī mujhe
composed 1826; Arshi #198

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{202,1}

dekh kar dar-pardah garm-e dāman-afshānī mujhe
kar gaʾī vā-bastah-e tan merī ʿuryānī mujhe

{202,2}

ban gayā teġh-e nigāh-e yār kā sang-e fasāñ
marḥabā maiñ kyā mubārak hai girāñ-jānī mujhe

{202,3}

kyūñ nah ho be-iltifātī us kī ḳhāt̤ir jamʿa hai
jāntā hai maḥv-e pursish'hā-e pinhānī mujhe

{202,4}

mere ġham-ḳhāne kī qismat jab raqam hone lagī
likh diyā min-jumlah-e asbāb-e vīrānī mujhe

{202,5}

bad-gumāñ hotā hai vuh kāfir nah hotā kāsh ke
is qadar żauq-e navā-e murġh-e bustānī mujhe

{202,6}

vāʾe vāñ bhī shor-e maḥshar ne nah dam lene diyā
le gayā thā gor meñ żauq-e tan-āsānī mujhe

{202,7}

vaʿdah āne kā vafā kīje yih kyā andāz hai
tum ne kyūñ sauñpī hai mere ghar kī darbānī mujhe

{202,8}

hāñ nashāt̤-e āmad-e faṣl-e bahārī vāh vāh
phir huʾā hai tāzah saudā-e ġhazal-ḳhvānī mujhe

{202,9}

dī mire bhāʾī ko ḥaq ne az sar-e nau zindagī
mīrzā yūsuf hai ġhālib yūsuf-e ṡānī mujhe