Tughluqabad

Agra Fort, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 212

4 divan verses (out of 7); rhyming elements: ā-e ḳhandah hai
composed 1816; Arshi #167

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{212,1}

ʿarẓ-e nāz-e shoḳhī-e dandāñ barāʾe ḳhandah hai
daʿvā-e jamʿiyyat-e aḥbāb jā-e ḳhandah hai

{212,2}

hai ʿadam meñ ġhunchah maḥv-e ʿibrat-e anjām-e gul
yak-jahāñ zānū taʾammul dar-qafā-e ḳhandah hai

{212,3}

kulfat-e afsurdagī ko ʿaish-e be-tābī ḥarām
varnah dandāñ dar dil afshurdan binā-e ḳhandah hai

{212,4}

shorish-e bāt̤in ke haiñ aḥbāb munkir varnah yāñ
dil muḥīt̤-e giryah-o-lab āshnā-e ḳhandah hai

The unpublished verses from this ghazal:

{212,5x}

ḳhvud-faroshīhā-e hastī baskih jā-e ḳhandah hai
har shikast-e qīmat-e dil meñ ṣadā-e ḳhandah hai

{212,6x}

naqsh-e ʿibrat dar naz̤ar yā naqd-e ʿishrat dar biṣāt̤
do-jahāñ vusʿat bah qadr-e yak faẓā-e ḳhandah hai

{212,7x}

jā-e istihzā hai ʿishrat-koshī-e hastī asad
ṣubḥ-o-shabnam furṣat-e nushv-o-numā-e ḳhandah hai