🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝We have long heard of Adam's expulsion from paradise, but,
we left your lane far more disgraced than that❞
we left your lane far more disgraced than that❞
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🔗❝It was not in my fate to unite with my beloved,
had I lived on longer, this same wait would have gone on.❞
had I lived on longer, this same wait would have gone on.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝He is but fragrance, he'll scatter into the winds,
the real question is of the flower — where will the flower go.❞
the real question is of the flower — where will the flower go.❞
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🔗❝These mystic riddles, Ghalib, this eloquence of yours—
we'd have called you a saint, were you not fond of wine.❞
we'd have called you a saint, were you not fond of wine.❞
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🔗❝We who remain strangers after so many meetings,
after how many more meetings will we become friends again?❞
after how many more meetings will we become friends again?❞
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🔗❝What can I say of the softness of her lips—
like a single petal of a rose.❞
like a single petal of a rose.❞
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🔗❝Some people of the city were cruel too,
and I too had some fondness for the journey❞
and I too had some fondness for the journey❞
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🔗❝Partly the world's own kindness broke my heart,
and partly the bitterness of circumstance broke it too.❞
and partly the bitterness of circumstance broke it too.❞
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🔗❝Having lost both worlds in your love,
someone departs, having passed a night of sorrow.❞
someone departs, having passed a night of sorrow.❞
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🔗❝Who has ever managed to erase what fate has penned,
what had to happen carved its own path to the end.❞
what had to happen carved its own path to the end.❞
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🔗❝Even complaining to destiny is futile
what is written is the writer's own will❞
what is written is the writer's own will❞
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🔗❝A moist eye, a restless soul are not enough—
nor the veiled accusation of love.❞
nor the veiled accusation of love.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Those who live with patience come at last to win,
those who burn in haste turn hollow, worn and thin.❞
those who burn in haste turn hollow, worn and thin.❞
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🔗❝Even tangled in thorns, the rose still smiles
enduring pain too is one grace of beauty❞
enduring pain too is one grace of beauty❞
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🔗❝At every turn your memory stopped me
the journey remained incomplete my whole life❞
the journey remained incomplete my whole life❞
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🔗❝If company was lost on the way, why should we grieve
the destination must be reached by our own strength❞
the destination must be reached by our own strength❞
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🔗❝Granted, we could not turn this earth into a garden,
but wherever we passed, we lessened at least a few thorns❞
but wherever we passed, we lessened at least a few thorns❞
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🔗❝I am neither the light of anyone's eye nor the peace of anyone's heart
I am but a handful of dust, of no use to anyone at all❞
I am but a handful of dust, of no use to anyone at all❞
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🔗❝Even in ash, a spark somewhere remains
love thought extinguished sometimes smoulders again❞
love thought extinguished sometimes smoulders again❞
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🔗❝People break themselves apart building a single home,
yet you show no mercy while burning whole settlements down.❞
yet you show no mercy while burning whole settlements down.❞
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🔗❝I sit here holding fast to patience's hem,
this storm of time will pass, of that I'm certain, them.❞
this storm of time will pass, of that I'm certain, them.❞
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🔗❝What we call fate may just be a thought we've spun ourselves,
for every hour holds both a passion and sense to help.❞
for every hour holds both a passion and sense to help.❞
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🔗❝In the madness of love I even left my home
now people say I have become mad❞
now people say I have become mad❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝One girl robbed Mir of both faith and heart,
What grace she had, what simplicity.❞
What grace she had, what simplicity.❞
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🔗❝If the lamp went out, did the darkness truly win?
the memory of light still remains in the heart❞
the memory of light still remains in the heart❞
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🔗❝Be my enemy fully, but leave room enough,
that if we ever become friends, we need not feel ashamed.❞
that if we ever become friends, we need not feel ashamed.❞
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🔗❝Stay out of sight and you'll fade from the heart too,
as for time, it just keeps passing, and shall pass on❞
as for time, it just keeps passing, and shall pass on❞
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🔗❝The journey stretches on, no companion by my side,
yet one hope remains — a destination must abide.❞
yet one hope remains — a destination must abide.❞
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🔗❝I built a bridge between two hearts
but no one had the courage left to cross it❞
but no one had the courage left to cross it❞
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🔗❝Come, even if it be in spite — come to hurt this heart,
come once more just to leave me and depart.❞
come once more just to leave me and depart.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Ages have passed since Ghalib died, yet I remember,
His habit of saying at every turn: what if it had been otherwise?❞
His habit of saying at every turn: what if it had been otherwise?❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝With patience held, we watched the blossoms bloom and grow,
in haste, we only ever met the thorns we'd sow.❞
in haste, we only ever met the thorns we'd sow.❞
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🔗❝Even the night of union passed so quickly
but the nights of separation refuse to end❞
but the nights of separation refuse to end❞
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🔗❝Sitting at the threshold, an age passed by
the one who promised to return never came back❞
the one who promised to return never came back❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Many letters were written but never sent
all the love remained imprisoned in words❞
all the love remained imprisoned in words❞
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🔗❝My existence is like a bubble—
this show of life is like a mirage.❞
this show of life is like a mirage.❞
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🔗❝From street to street the news of our acquaintance spread,
she welcomed me the way a fragrance welcomes the air.❞
she welcomed me the way a fragrance welcomes the air.❞
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🔗❝I set out to understand myself, and lost my way within,
strange was this journey — I slept before the end could begin.❞
strange was this journey — I slept before the end could begin.❞
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🔗❝When solitude surrounds and I speak to myself alone,
I learn how many bonds were merely masks I'd worn.❞
I learn how many bonds were merely masks I'd worn.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Why ask now of Mir's faith and religion,
He drew a tilak, sat in the temple, long ago abandoned faith.❞
He drew a tilak, sat in the temple, long ago abandoned faith.❞
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🔗❝All my remedies backfired, no medicine had effect,
see how this sickness of the heart finally finished me off.❞
see how this sickness of the heart finally finished me off.❞
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🔗❝The veil slips slowly from her face, so slowly—
like the sun rising slowly, slowly.❞
like the sun rising slowly, slowly.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝All my remedies went in vain, no medicine worked at all,
In the end this disease of the heart finished everything.❞
In the end this disease of the heart finished everything.❞
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🔗❝We know what's written will not be erased or undone,
yet still we do not stop raising hands in prayer to the sun.❞
yet still we do not stop raising hands in prayer to the sun.❞
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🔗❝Foolish heart — what has come over you,
what after all is the remedy for this pain?
I am eager and she is indifferent —
O God, what is this strange situation's refrain?❞
what after all is the remedy for this pain?
I am eager and she is indifferent —
O God, what is this strange situation's refrain?❞
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🔗❝My heart's grief is a critic — I dare not speak it aloud;
what can be done where even words fail to form?❞
what can be done where even words fail to form?❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝No hope is fulfilled,
No face comes into sight.❞
No face comes into sight.❞
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🔗❝Distance taught me who was truly ever near,
and whose leaving was merely fate, not fear.❞
and whose leaving was merely fate, not fear.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝If we speak of faithfulness, the world laughs
betrayal has become an ordinary custom here❞
betrayal has become an ordinary custom here❞
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🔗❝The blisters of my heart burned from the scar in my chest,
this house caught fire from its own household lamp❞
this house caught fire from its own household lamp❞
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🔗❝I peered within myself and stood there in surprise,
what I sought in others was there behind my eyes.❞
what I sought in others was there behind my eyes.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝I saw him in a dream,
woke and searched everywhere,
I found him in the mirror —
since then I have loved myself.❞
woke and searched everywhere,
I found him in the mirror —
since then I have loved myself.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝The flowers withered but the fragrance remained
this alone is love's true identity❞
this alone is love's true identity❞
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🔗❝The world is but a children's playground before me,
day and night, a spectacle unfolds before my eyes.❞
day and night, a spectacle unfolds before my eyes.❞
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🔗❝This is but the humble tale of a single word called love,
when it contracts, it's a lover's heart; when it expands, it's the whole world❞
when it contracts, it's a lover's heart; when it expands, it's the whole world❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝This is life's truth, O heart,
What is life — death is its other name.❞
What is life — death is its other name.❞
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🔗❝I have kept the lamp of your memory alight,
it is the only refuge in separation's night.❞
it is the only refuge in separation's night.❞
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🔗❝To stay estranged from oneself is torment through and through,
to reunite with oneself — that's the real book, honest and true.❞
to reunite with oneself — that's the real book, honest and true.❞
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🔗❝When the saqi filled the cup and glanced my way
the whole gathering in the tavern fell silent❞
the whole gathering in the tavern fell silent❞
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🔗❝Even patience has a limit, my friends, it's true,
but better to steady oneself than to break clean through.❞
but better to steady oneself than to break clean through.❞
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🔗❝I have built a wall around my own heart
yet your voice still reaches within❞
yet your voice still reaches within❞
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🔗❝Thousands of desires, each worth dying for,
Many of my wishes were fulfilled, yet they were still too few.❞
Many of my wishes were fulfilled, yet they were still too few.❞
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🔗❝A whole life passed just trying to know my own face,
looking in the mirror, a stranger took my place.❞
looking in the mirror, a stranger took my place.❞
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🔗❝Fate showed only the scene it chose to reveal,
we merely walked the journey allotted, real.❞
we merely walked the journey allotted, real.❞
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🔗❝There are others finer than fine in my sight—
what difference that you alone are my beloved?❞
what difference that you alone are my beloved?❞
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🔗❝Once parted, I learned this grief will last a lifetime through,
union was one fleeting hour, the rest is season, cold and true.❞
union was one fleeting hour, the rest is season, cold and true.❞
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🔗❝What destiny has written isn't always bound to be true,
sometimes courage alone can carve the path anew.❞
sometimes courage alone can carve the path anew.❞
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🔗❝I've borne the parting, borne the solitude, what's left to fear,
whatever was to be lost is lost now, nothing more draws near.❞
whatever was to be lost is lost now, nothing more draws near.❞
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🔗❝The clouds rained down but the thirst remained
the soil of love demands something else entirely❞
the soil of love demands something else entirely❞
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🔗❝It was not our fate that union with the beloved would happen,
Had we lived longer, the same waiting would have remained.❞
Had we lived longer, the same waiting would have remained.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Since you left, the house holds less light than before,
every corner has turned to mourning, nothing more.❞
every corner has turned to mourning, nothing more.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝I've begun to fear even my own shadow's trace,
perhaps to understand myself has become hard to face.❞
perhaps to understand myself has become hard to face.❞
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🔗❝Love has made Ghalib good for nothing,
Otherwise I too was a man of worth.❞
Otherwise I too was a man of worth.❞
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🔗❝Whatever their duty is, let the politicians know it,
my message is only of love, wherever it may reach.❞
my message is only of love, wherever it may reach.❞
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🔗❝Let someone be the son of Mary, a healer of the world—
but who will cure this sorrow of mine?❞
but who will cure this sorrow of mine?❞
👁️52.3k
🔗❝Tears hide themselves while getting drenched in rain
perhaps this is why people prefer to weep in the rain❞
perhaps this is why people prefer to weep in the rain❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝When man grows accustomed to sorrow, sorrow disappears,
So many difficulties fell upon me that they became easy.❞
So many difficulties fell upon me that they became easy.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝O naive heart, what has come over you,
What after all is the cure for this pain,
I long for one who is averse to me —
O God, what is this affair.❞
What after all is the cure for this pain,
I long for one who is averse to me —
O God, what is this affair.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝I thought the heart was vast —
but it couldn't hold your memory.❞
but it couldn't hold your memory.❞
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🔗❝The eyes too are strange — like the heart itself,
even when they weep they cannot seem to stop.
This chain of pain never reaches its end —
the memories arrive and we fall and drop.❞
even when they weep they cannot seem to stop.
This chain of pain never reaches its end —
the memories arrive and we fall and drop.❞
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🔗❝Extinguishing the lamps of hope is not easy
however hard the wind blows, the flame keeps burning❞
however hard the wind blows, the flame keeps burning❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝A lamp still burns in the wilderness of my heart
this alone remains of the chain of your memory❞
this alone remains of the chain of your memory❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Even in the sound of bells, sadness is mixed
the temple is the same, but the priests have changed❞
the temple is the same, but the priests have changed❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝I searched for it in every crowd, every fair —
it was within me all along;
I was simply a stranger to myself.❞
it was within me all along;
I was simply a stranger to myself.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝One does not object to what destiny has decreed,
yet the heart refuses to accept, however we plead.❞
yet the heart refuses to accept, however we plead.❞
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🔗❝Even burning in the sun, I found no shade
those who were my own turned out to be strangers❞
those who were my own turned out to be strangers❞
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🔗❝Thousands of desires such that each desire takes my breath,
Many desires emerged, yet they were still not enough.❞
Many desires emerged, yet they were still not enough.❞
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🔗❝In this world that tests our patience, patience is an art,
who learns it well finds worth in every journey's start.❞
who learns it well finds worth in every journey's start.❞
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🔗❝I lit the lamp of hope upon my threshold's frame,
the wind blew it out, yet still I kept the same.❞
the wind blew it out, yet still I kept the same.❞
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🔗❝Walk today in the marketplace with chains on your feet,
Waving hands, walk intoxicated and dancing.❞
Waving hands, walk intoxicated and dancing.❞
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🔗❝Do not ask of me, my beloved, that love of earlier days,
I had thought that if you are there life would be aglow.❞
I had thought that if you are there life would be aglow.❞
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🔗❝The journey of separation is a strange journey too
the destination is never found, yet the caravan halts❞
the destination is never found, yet the caravan halts❞
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🔗❝We endured even the height of cruelty in the end
this alone remained love's final test❞
this alone remained love's final test❞
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🔗❝O foolish heart, what has happened to you,
What after all is the cure for this pain?❞
What after all is the cure for this pain?❞
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🔗❝This is my wish that the same cupbearer should be there,
The same wine and the same goblet.
Again in the light of the same moon,
Again the name of the same moon be called.❞
The same wine and the same goblet.
Again in the light of the same moon,
Again the name of the same moon be called.❞
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🔗❝To the cupbearer, one last request I make tonight,
let this be the final cup, but let love remain in sight.❞
let this be the final cup, but let love remain in sight.❞
👁️47.6k
🔗❝The falling leaves announce the coming of autumn
but the heart's ruin knows no season❞
but the heart's ruin knows no season❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Look, it rises from the heart, from the very soul
where else could this smoke be rising from❞
where else could this smoke be rising from❞
👁️67.0k
🔗❝No hope is fulfilled,
No way out is seen.
Death has a fixed day,
Why then does sleep not come all night?❞
No way out is seen.
Death has a fixed day,
Why then does sleep not come all night?❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝What was in the heart remained unsaid,
that evening remained — that meeting remained.❞
that evening remained — that meeting remained.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝I accept you will not be negligent — but
I shall turn to dust before the news reaches you.❞
I shall turn to dust before the news reaches you.❞
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🔗❝The cupbearer filled the cup, yet the thirst remained the same,
what the heart longed for stayed unspoken, without a name.❞
what the heart longed for stayed unspoken, without a name.❞
👁️42.2k
🔗❝The seasons kept changing but the waiting stayed the same
in every spring, I have searched only for you❞
in every spring, I have searched only for you❞
👁️66.7k
🔗❝There are flowers in the garden, but no spring like before
the brightness you once gave, I never found again❞
the brightness you once gave, I never found again❞
👁️63.0k
🔗❝When man grows accustomed to grief, the grief disappears,
So many hardships fell upon me that they became easy.❞
So many hardships fell upon me that they became easy.❞
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🔗❝Years of patience shatter in a single fleeting breath,
yet patience broken still can mend itself past death.❞
yet patience broken still can mend itself past death.❞
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🔗❝I wander carrying the weight of my desires
where now is even the possibility of a meeting❞
where now is even the possibility of a meeting❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Life brought us here, and death takes us away,
Neither did we come by our own will, nor leave by it.❞
Neither did we come by our own will, nor leave by it.❞
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🔗❝Seeing the moon, your face came to mind
now every night this alone has become my habit❞
now every night this alone has become my habit❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Thousands of desires, each worth dying for,
Many I have fulfilled, yet they seem too few.
Why should my killer fear — what weight upon his neck?
That blood which drips all life from my tearful eyes.❞
Many I have fulfilled, yet they seem too few.
Why should my killer fear — what weight upon his neck?
That blood which drips all life from my tearful eyes.❞
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🔗❝What assurance shall I give my heart,
O life, tell me — what to keep, what to erase?❞
O life, tell me — what to keep, what to erase?❞
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🔗❝He who was a poet, is a poet no more,
Life snatched his verse from him.
The pen that was once his weapon,
Sorrow has drunk the ink of that pen.❞
Life snatched his verse from him.
The pen that was once his weapon,
Sorrow has drunk the ink of that pen.❞
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🔗❝I am prey to a strange kind of loneliness,
sometimes I even become a burden to my own self❞
sometimes I even become a burden to my own self❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝I too am strange — I remember those who left,
I forget those who stayed.❞
I forget those who stayed.❞
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🔗❝The night of parting is long, but it too shall pass,
perhaps the morning brings meaning to what we amassed.❞
perhaps the morning brings meaning to what we amassed.❞
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🔗❝Even in the river's waves there is a restlessness
perhaps it too searches for some shore❞
perhaps it too searches for some shore❞
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🔗❝Every leaf and every plant knows my condition well,
the flower may not know — but the whole garden can tell.❞
the flower may not know — but the whole garden can tell.❞
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🔗❝Love cannot be forced — it is that fire, Ghalib,
Which cannot be lit at will, nor extinguished.❞
Which cannot be lit at will, nor extinguished.❞
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🔗❝Even shattered like glass, I try to mend myself
perhaps this alone is the skill that love requires❞
perhaps this alone is the skill that love requires❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝There was so much desire to make him mine
only longing remained, and he stayed a stranger❞
only longing remained, and he stayed a stranger❞
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🔗❝We asked for a long life, but got only four days
two passed in longing, two in waiting❞
two passed in longing, two in waiting❞
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🔗❝That which was the heart's longing for so long, for which we
died throughout our lives — it came, but late.❞
died throughout our lives — it came, but late.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝We met one evening, for no reason —
then a lifetime was spent searching for the same.
Love is a strange malady —
even in pain the longing for the same remained.❞
then a lifetime was spent searching for the same.
Love is a strange malady —
even in pain the longing for the same remained.❞
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🔗❝Pain no longer needs any cure now
even wounds live on the support of your memory❞
even wounds live on the support of your memory❞
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🔗❝I too am strange — I befriend my own pain,
I wish to keep meeting the one who breaks me.
I sit alone at night, waking my memories —
This is my passion: to keep making myself weep.❞
I wish to keep meeting the one who breaks me.
I sit alone at night, waking my memories —
This is my passion: to keep making myself weep.❞
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🔗❝The world is a children's playground before me,
Night and day a spectacle unfolds before me.❞
Night and day a spectacle unfolds before me.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Behind every face there hides a story of its own,
on mine too is written a lonely life, well known.❞
on mine too is written a lonely life, well known.❞
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🔗❝Looking at you it feels,
As if the poetry is now complete.
Words had abandoned me,
When you came, they returned.❞
As if the poetry is now complete.
Words had abandoned me,
When you came, they returned.❞
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🔗❝When hardships came, patience showed the way ahead,
at every turn, hope called out, keeping fear unfed.❞
at every turn, hope called out, keeping fear unfed.❞
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🔗❝The practice of verse goes on, along with the mill's grinding toil—
what a strange spectacle, this temperament of Hasrat.❞
what a strange spectacle, this temperament of Hasrat.❞
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🔗❝Who has come to know himself has known the divine too,
this secret runs so deep, all souls confess it true.❞
this secret runs so deep, all souls confess it true.❞
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🔗❝Stay like a fragrance — that is all I want,
I want to dissolve in the breeze and always be near.
Wherever you go may you always remember me,
I want to live forever in your heart, my dear.❞
I want to dissolve in the breeze and always be near.
Wherever you go may you always remember me,
I want to live forever in your heart, my dear.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝No one ever gets a complete world of their own to hold,
Somewhere the earth, somewhere the sky — never fully enrolled.
Everyone you see is lost in their own private song and scene,
No guest for the whole of the age is found here in-between.❞
Somewhere the earth, somewhere the sky — never fully enrolled.
Everyone you see is lost in their own private song and scene,
No guest for the whole of the age is found here in-between.❞
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🔗❝Do not ask me for that first love again, my beloved,
I had thought that if you were there, life would be radiant.❞
I had thought that if you were there, life would be radiant.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Why now ask of Mir's faith and religion?
Long ago he drew the tilak, sat in the temple, and left Islam behind.❞
Long ago he drew the tilak, sat in the temple, and left Islam behind.❞
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🔗❝Passing through your city, my steps slowed
every lane seemed steeped in your fragrance❞
every lane seemed steeped in your fragrance❞
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🔗❝The blood of all is mixed in this soil —
this Hindustan does not belong to anyone's father alone.❞
this Hindustan does not belong to anyone's father alone.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝When evening falls and solitude surrounds,
your memory comes to me unbidden.
I think I'll forget you —
but habits, where do they ever truly leave?❞
your memory comes to me unbidden.
I think I'll forget you —
but habits, where do they ever truly leave?❞
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🔗❝I have heard that people watch her with eyes full of love,
So in her city let me stay a few days and see.❞
So in her city let me stay a few days and see.❞
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🔗❝The feeling of pain itself is the ghazal,
the river of the heart is the ghazal.
What words cannot express or contain,
that very silence is the ghazal.❞
the river of the heart is the ghazal.
What words cannot express or contain,
that very silence is the ghazal.❞
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🔗❝To meet oneself is also a journey, long and wide,
whoever finds himself has the greatest skill inside.❞
whoever finds himself has the greatest skill inside.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝I am already submerged, my love —
I shall take you down with me.
In love all things happen —
why should we remain apart?❞
I shall take you down with me.
In love all things happen —
why should we remain apart?❞
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🔗❝Ask not of me that first love's fervour, my beloved,
I had thought that with you, life would glow bright.❞
I had thought that with you, life would glow bright.❞
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🔗❝Spring did arrive at last, though it arrived too late,
the branches meant to bloom had withered past their date.❞
the branches meant to bloom had withered past their date.❞
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🔗❝Why speak of the heart's desolation —
this city has been plundered and rebuilt a hundred times.❞
this city has been plundered and rebuilt a hundred times.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Now that we part, perhaps we'll meet in dreams some night,
Just as dried flowers are found in books pressed tight.
Seek the pearls of loyalty among the broken and forlorn,
These treasures you shall find in the desolate and torn.❞
Just as dried flowers are found in books pressed tight.
Seek the pearls of loyalty among the broken and forlorn,
These treasures you shall find in the desolate and torn.❞
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🔗❝Having lost both worlds in love for you —
someone goes, having passed through the night of sorrow.❞
someone goes, having passed through the night of sorrow.❞
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🔗❝I never learned the etiquette of parting well,
yet every path I take leads back where old goodbyes fell.❞
yet every path I take leads back where old goodbyes fell.❞
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🔗❝I asked the mirror about the state of my own face
it said even your face is no longer recognizable❞
it said even your face is no longer recognizable❞
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🔗❝To struggle against destiny is itself a form of prayer,
to keep on walking after loss is courage rare and fair.❞
to keep on walking after loss is courage rare and fair.❞
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🔗❝It calls but I have no will to go,
this is the world — there is no meaning in staying.
I begin to weep at every little thing —
my eyes have no sense of what they are displaying.❞
this is the world — there is no meaning in staying.
I begin to weep at every little thing —
my eyes have no sense of what they are displaying.❞
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🔗❝The spring breeze fills the flowers with color,
do come now so the garden's work may begin.❞
do come now so the garden's work may begin.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝A sigh needs a lifetime to take effect,
Who survives until your tresses are perfect?❞
Who survives until your tresses are perfect?❞
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🔗❝Losing both worlds in your love,
someone is leaving after passing the night of grief.❞
someone is leaving after passing the night of grief.❞
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🔗❝In the silence of the night I write a ghazal,
in your memory I write my heart's word.
Whether anyone reads these lines or not,
only for you these feelings are stirred.❞
in your memory I write my heart's word.
Whether anyone reads these lines or not,
only for you these feelings are stirred.❞
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🔗❝Your sorrow sought a life to consume — we became its victim,
Your faithfulness needed to be tested — we became the test.❞
Your faithfulness needed to be tested — we became the test.❞
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🔗❝What has beauty understood, what has love known —
in the stumbling steps of us dust-dwellers lies the whole age.❞
in the stumbling steps of us dust-dwellers lies the whole age.❞
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🔗❝I was sure of my existence,
As long as someone called my name.❞
As long as someone called my name.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝We shall witness — it is certain that we too shall witness,
That day which has been promised, written on the tablet of eternity.❞
That day which has been promised, written on the tablet of eternity.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Love cannot be forced, it is that flame, O Ghalib,
That cannot be kindled at will nor quenched at your will.
Someone should come to the beloved's gathering tonight,
Until my tears neither wet nor fail to wet this plight.❞
That cannot be kindled at will nor quenched at your will.
Someone should come to the beloved's gathering tonight,
Until my tears neither wet nor fail to wet this plight.❞
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🔗❝Love is not easy — understand only this:
it is a river of fire, and you must drown to cross it.❞
it is a river of fire, and you must drown to cross it.❞
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🔗❝So what if the garden lies ruined, spring will come again,
even the withered branch will turn green free of pain.❞
even the withered branch will turn green free of pain.❞
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🔗❝The spring breeze fills the flowers with colour,
Come now, so the garden may bloom and flourish.❞
Come now, so the garden may bloom and flourish.❞
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🔗❝The journey will have harsh sun — if you can walk, then walk.
All are in the crowd — if you can emerge, step forward.❞
All are in the crowd — if you can emerge, step forward.❞
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🔗❝If you are with me — what more could there be,
in the heart I hold my meeting with you.
In the loneliness of night I remember you —
that is the sum of every feeling I knew.❞
in the heart I hold my meeting with you.
In the loneliness of night I remember you —
that is the sum of every feeling I knew.❞
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🔗❝Hearing your footsteps, my heart kept beating,
So deeply I was waiting for you.❞
So deeply I was waiting for you.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝We are not convinced by blood that merely races through veins,
If it does not drip from the eye as tears, what blood remains?❞
If it does not drip from the eye as tears, what blood remains?❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝The knock upon the door of my heart is hers —
the one who never came, yet is always remembered.❞
the one who never came, yet is always remembered.❞
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🔗❝I have come to your city like a traveller,
I'll stay the night and leave by morning.❞
I'll stay the night and leave by morning.❞
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🔗❝Even coming in a dream you seemed like reality
when sleep broke, the same solitude returned❞
when sleep broke, the same solitude returned❞
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🔗❝Even after writing our own fate, we still complain,
weeping over thorns we sowed with our own hand's pain.❞
weeping over thorns we sowed with our own hand's pain.❞
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🔗❝Man, tangled in the lines that fate has drawn so fine,
has made himself a guest at his own destined shrine.❞
has made himself a guest at his own destined shrine.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝A sigh needs a whole lifetime to take effect,
Who lives long enough to see your tresses perfect.
Every wave is a net with a hundred whirlpools set,
Let's see what the raindrop endures to become a pearl yet.❞
Who lives long enough to see your tresses perfect.
Every wave is a net with a hundred whirlpools set,
Let's see what the raindrop endures to become a pearl yet.❞
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🔗❝Even in a settlement on the border, lamps are lit
even amid war, a mother's prayer does not go out❞
even amid war, a mother's prayer does not go out❞
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🔗❝I am like a fragrance — I scatter and spread,
When I draw near him, I lose myself instead.
Whoever weeps remembering me is my kindred soul,
Whoever forgets me — that is my death's toll.❞
When I draw near him, I lose myself instead.
Whoever weeps remembering me is my kindred soul,
Whoever forgets me — that is my death's toll.❞
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🔗❝Like a fragrance in my life he was,
Leaving only a feeling in the room when he left.❞
Leaving only a feeling in the room when he left.❞
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🔗❝Evening descends without you here,
even stars rub their sleepy eyes in wait.
In longing for you every night,
we walk a lifetime to your gate.❞
even stars rub their sleepy eyes in wait.
In longing for you every night,
we walk a lifetime to your gate.❞
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🔗❝It was not in our fate that union with the beloved would come —
had we lived longer, the waiting would have been the same.❞
had we lived longer, the waiting would have been the same.❞
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🔗❝The boat knows well how to fight the storm
in search of the shore, sometimes drowning too is needed❞
in search of the shore, sometimes drowning too is needed❞
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🔗❝I am strange and you are strange as well,
I am not faithless and you are unlucky.
I kept searching for you but you never came,
you were very close — yet distance was our destiny.❞
I am not faithless and you are unlucky.
I kept searching for you but you never came,
you were very close — yet distance was our destiny.❞
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🔗❝Every couplet of the ghazal is you,
your name lives within every word.
Whenever my pen has begun to move,
it carries your feeling, not its own accord.❞
your name lives within every word.
Whenever my pen has begun to move,
it carries your feeling, not its own accord.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝The caravan kept moving toward its destination
but my footsteps remained in your lane❞
but my footsteps remained in your lane❞
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🔗❝When she asked for whom do you live,
I said — for you, only for you.
Life does exist beyond you, they say —
But that is not life — just a long road.❞
I said — for you, only for you.
Life does exist beyond you, they say —
But that is not life — just a long road.❞
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🔗❝No hope now bears any fruit for me,
No vision or face comes clear to see.
Death has its appointed day set in stone,
So why does sleep elude me all night alone?❞
No vision or face comes clear to see.
Death has its appointed day set in stone,
So why does sleep elude me all night alone?❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Sometimes it happens just this way,
The heart finds peace amid the fray.
We know not why this feeling comes to stay,
But when it does, it does — what more to say?❞
The heart finds peace amid the fray.
We know not why this feeling comes to stay,
But when it does, it does — what more to say?❞
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🔗❝Even in solitude a kind of noise remains
since you left, even silence screams❞
since you left, even silence screams❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝The words that never reached my lips to say,
still haven't burned away that parting day.❞
still haven't burned away that parting day.❞
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🔗❝I was counting the world's sorrows —
today you were remembered, beyond all counting.❞
today you were remembered, beyond all counting.❞
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🔗❝When the kite's string broke, it lost itself in the sky
some relationships too are handed over to the wind❞
some relationships too are handed over to the wind❞
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🔗❝They came to our home — it is God's wonder,
Sometimes I look at them, sometimes at my home.❞
Sometimes I look at them, sometimes at my home.❞
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🔗❝Who am I — this question torments me every night,
no mirror in the world can give an answer bright.❞
no mirror in the world can give an answer bright.❞
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🔗❝Even after parting, letters still get penned,
no reply may come, yet the ritual does not end.❞
no reply may come, yet the ritual does not end.❞
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🔗❝If you meet, then meet from the heart,
don't mix formality with the bond.
Be simple, like a well-crafted ghazal,
but leave an impression that goes beyond.❞
don't mix formality with the bond.
Be simple, like a well-crafted ghazal,
but leave an impression that goes beyond.❞
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🔗❝Pride of feeling held back my tears in love's path,
Otherwise what would have stopped me from weeping?
Had desire not been chained by restraint, O Jigar,
Farhad and Majnun's existence would be dust before me.❞
Otherwise what would have stopped me from weeping?
Had desire not been chained by restraint, O Jigar,
Farhad and Majnun's existence would be dust before me.❞
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🔗❝Is this a heart or a thoroughfare —
everyone passes through.
Even those who linger
leave one day without reason.❞
everyone passes through.
Even those who linger
leave one day without reason.❞
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🔗❝I remember weeping silently day and night,
I still remember those days of love.❞
I still remember those days of love.❞
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🔗❝I've kept the torch of patience burning in my heart's core,
however thick the darkness gathers at the gathering's door.❞
however thick the darkness gathers at the gathering's door.❞
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🔗❝I still remember — weeping silently, day and night,
I still remember that era of loving you.
Something of life's impermanence I recall —
And something of how you'd sulk, then let yourself be consoled.❞
I still remember that era of loving you.
Something of life's impermanence I recall —
And something of how you'd sulk, then let yourself be consoled.❞
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🔗❝The nightingale's bond with the rose's scent is old
even when the garden was ruined, she did not forget her song❞
even when the garden was ruined, she did not forget her song❞
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🔗❝Come even if in anger, to hurt my heart,
Come again even to leave — just come.❞
Come again even to leave — just come.❞
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🔗❝Even imprisoned, the bird still sings its song
hope of freedom never lets it die❞
hope of freedom never lets it die❞
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🔗❝The night of separation somehow passes on its own,
but with the dawn, all hope grows faint and overgrown.❞
but with the dawn, all hope grows faint and overgrown.❞
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🔗❝This blotched daybreak, this night-bitten dawn—
this is not the dawn for which we waited.❞
this is not the dawn for which we waited.❞
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🔗❝This was not my madness — it was my tradition,
Every time I loved — I lost.❞
Every time I loved — I lost.❞
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🔗❝Even in the desert I search for a single drop
perhaps this alone is the sign of my love❞
perhaps this alone is the sign of my love❞
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🔗❝The garden caught fire while we merely stood and stared,
watching the blooms we'd raised burn, unrepaired.❞
watching the blooms we'd raised burn, unrepaired.❞
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🔗❝Without you there is no complaint about life itself,
but without you life — is it really life?
Light comes to this house when you arrive,
when you leave this house is no longer home.❞
but without you life — is it really life?
Light comes to this house when you arrive,
when you leave this house is no longer home.❞
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🔗❝This city is merciless —
at every turn is your memory,
in every lane you are there,
yet you are nowhere.❞
at every turn is your memory,
in every lane you are there,
yet you are nowhere.❞
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🔗❝Writing a ghazal is not easy,
First you must earn the wound.❞
First you must earn the wound.❞
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🔗❝We met at a beautiful turn, parted at a painful one,
This is life's game, dear — we broke even in winning.
People say in love, peace is never found —
We too sought that peace, and it became our enemy.❞
This is life's game, dear — we broke even in winning.
People say in love, peace is never found —
We too sought that peace, and it became our enemy.❞
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🔗❝For one glimpse of them —
I circled the entire city.❞
I circled the entire city.❞
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🔗❝It is hard for every task to become easy
Even man does not easily attain being human❞
Even man does not easily attain being human❞
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🔗❝I thought I would forget them in this world,
They appeared in my imagination and I forgot forgetting.❞
They appeared in my imagination and I forgot forgetting.❞
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🔗❝In waiting, a whole lifetime often slips away,
yet fortune turns for those who patiently obey.❞
yet fortune turns for those who patiently obey.❞
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🔗❝What rose to my lips I could not say,
my eyes spoke it — but they could not understand.❞
my eyes spoke it — but they could not understand.❞
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🔗❝Love taught — to bear every pain,
love taught — to live in every joy.❞
love taught — to live in every joy.❞
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🔗❝This is a journey of separation with no destination in sight,
what was once mine to hold is nowhere within my reach tonight.❞
what was once mine to hold is nowhere within my reach tonight.❞
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🔗❝Tears kept flowing and laments kept rising
this alone was our occupation through the night❞
this alone was our occupation through the night❞
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🔗❝Consider it neither fortune nor foe,
Only a heart knows what hearts undergo.
Whether anyone understands this tale or not,
My burning itself is the destination I sought.❞
Only a heart knows what hearts undergo.
Whether anyone understands this tale or not,
My burning itself is the destination I sought.❞
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🔗❝He was my fellow traveler, yet we never quite agreed—
for sun and shade always kept us worlds apart.❞
for sun and shade always kept us worlds apart.❞
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🔗❝The words I never spoke,
Stayed hidden inside the ghazal.❞
Stayed hidden inside the ghazal.❞
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🔗❝Turned the night of sorrow into dawn —
tears lit the lamps.❞
tears lit the lamps.❞
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🔗❝Keep the courage to write your own destiny anew,
forget what has passed, choose the path ahead, true.❞
forget what has passed, choose the path ahead, true.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Why weep at love's first beginning here,
Wait and see what lies ahead, my dear.❞
Wait and see what lies ahead, my dear.❞
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🔗❝Is this my madness or the effect of love I bear,
In everything around me I see your image there.
In every voice I hear your voice calling out to me,
In every face I look upon your face I see.❞
In everything around me I see your image there.
In every voice I hear your voice calling out to me,
In every face I look upon your face I see.❞
👁️26.7k
🔗❝The intellect has nothing beyond mere information,
Your cure lies in vision alone, above every creation.
The slave of self-interest has always earned humiliation,
True purpose is nothing but fearless aspiration.❞
Your cure lies in vision alone, above every creation.
The slave of self-interest has always earned humiliation,
True purpose is nothing but fearless aspiration.❞
👁️26.3k
🔗❝I wrote everything in words,
But the pain that exists — cannot be written.❞
But the pain that exists — cannot be written.❞
👁️25.0k
🔗❝A ghazal that comes from the heart —
settles in the listener's heart.❞
settles in the listener's heart.❞
👁️25.0k
🔗❝Sacrifice yourself upon someone's smile—
and if you can, borrow a little of someone's pain.❞
and if you can, borrow a little of someone's pain.❞
👁️25.5k
🔗❝Separation does not belong to any single season's sway,
it rains through every hour, never pausing on its way.❞
it rains through every hour, never pausing on its way.❞
👁️18.0k
🔗❝My life has frozen over like snow
one smile of yours could melt it all❞
one smile of yours could melt it all❞
👁️16.3k
🔗❝You understood my ghazal,
That is not a little — that is everything.❞
That is not a little — that is everything.❞
👁️23.0k
🔗❝A ghazal is not what is written,
a ghazal is what is lived.❞
a ghazal is what is lived.❞
👁️23.0k
🔗❝Even in the deep silence a sound is heard
perhaps it is still the echo of your footsteps❞
perhaps it is still the echo of your footsteps❞
👁️19.1k
🔗❝In my words there is the fragrance of my love so rare,
In my poetry there is a river of emotions laid bare.
Whoever reads this shall come to understand,
In every utterance of the heart a wounded heart has planned.❞
In my poetry there is a river of emotions laid bare.
Whoever reads this shall come to understand,
In every utterance of the heart a wounded heart has planned.❞
👁️22.3k
🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Every leaf and every blade of grass knows my state so dear,
If the flower may not know, the whole garden is aware.❞
If the flower may not know, the whole garden is aware.❞
👁️21.6k
🔗❝Whenever I write my home address
I write it with the city's name changed❞
I write it with the city's name changed❞
👁️21.8k
🔗❝Who keeps count of sorrow and grief now
life itself has burned all the ledgers❞
life itself has burned all the ledgers❞
👁️21.8k
🔗❝The night passed counting the stars one by one
the hope of your arrival still remains❞
the hope of your arrival still remains❞
👁️13.9k
🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝O innocent heart, what has happened to you,
What is the remedy for this pain, tell me true?❞
What is the remedy for this pain, tell me true?❞
👁️19.8k
🔗❝There is no weapon greater than patience, understand,
one who knows how to endure need never lose ground.❞
one who knows how to endure need never lose ground.❞
👁️19.0k
🔗❝Touch my song with your lips and make it immortal today,
Weep not over every small thing — let my love hold sway.
What you have done for me by remembering me this night,
Illuminate the darkest hour of my lonely plight.❞
Weep not over every small thing — let my love hold sway.
What you have done for me by remembering me this night,
Illuminate the darkest hour of my lonely plight.❞
👁️17.0k
🔗❝Who can describe the state of Mir's verse,
Who can say what measure of lament it's worth?
I had wished to tell her, but alas, in her face,
Who can reveal these secrets in that place?❞
Who can say what measure of lament it's worth?
I had wished to tell her, but alas, in her face,
Who can reveal these secrets in that place?❞
👁️16.2k
🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝The heart is not stone or brick — why should it not fill with pain?
I shall weep a thousand times — why should anyone torment me?❞
I shall weep a thousand times — why should anyone torment me?❞
👁️14.8k
🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝It's been a while since Ghalib died, yet I remember his habit —
On every matter saying: if it had been so, what would have happened?❞
On every matter saying: if it had been so, what would have happened?❞
👁️14.2k
🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Now that we part, perhaps we'll meet in dreams someday,
Like dried flowers that are found between book-pages' fray.❞
Like dried flowers that are found between book-pages' fray.❞
👁️14.2k
🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Don't ask of me, my love, that first love I once had.
I had thought that you alone made life shine.❞
I had thought that you alone made life shine.❞
👁️12.8k
🔗❝I sacrifice myself for your lanes, O homeland where,
It has become the norm that no one walks with head held there.❞
It has become the norm that no one walks with head held there.❞
👁️12.9k
🔗❝Thousands of desires, each so strong they make me gasp,
Many of my longings were fulfilled — yet too few in my grasp.
Do not try to frighten me with death — for then they'll say,
Why die now, only when the heart breathes its last away?❞
Many of my longings were fulfilled — yet too few in my grasp.
Do not try to frighten me with death — for then they'll say,
Why die now, only when the heart breathes its last away?❞
👁️12.9k
🔗❝Today walk through the market in chains all the way,
Walk with hands raised in dance, swaying free all day.❞
Walk with hands raised in dance, swaying free all day.❞
👁️12.3k
🔗❝The prison of life and the bond of grief — in truth both are the same,
Why should man seek release from sorrow before death comes to claim?❞
Why should man seek release from sorrow before death comes to claim?❞
👁️10.6k
🔗❝The world is a children's playground before me,
Day and night the spectacle unfolds before me.❞
Day and night the spectacle unfolds before me.❞
👁️10.4k
🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝To be annihilated in love is the true destination,
only when the self dissolves is the divine found.❞
only when the self dissolves is the divine found.❞
👁️9.1k
🔗❝Your lost memory came to the heart at night,
Like spring arriving quietly in a desolate place.❞
Like spring arriving quietly in a desolate place.❞
👁️9.5k
🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝The evening that fades into your memory's glow,
Every beat of my heart meets only you, I know.
Though in this world we may never unite,
My soul walks beside you through every day and night.❞
Every beat of my heart meets only you, I know.
Though in this world we may never unite,
My soul walks beside you through every day and night.❞
👁️9.0k
🔗❝All remedies failed and medicine did naught for me,
See how this sickness of heart finally finished everything.❞
See how this sickness of heart finally finished everything.❞
👁️8.9k
🔗❝Speak, for your lips are still free;
Speak, for your tongue is still yours.❞
Speak, for your tongue is still yours.❞
👁️8.9k
🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝Even the night of union felt like separation to me,
perhaps in love, even meeting is a form of parting.❞
perhaps in love, even meeting is a form of parting.❞
👁️8.4k
🔗❝This is just the beginning of love — why do you weep?
Just wait and see what lies ahead.❞
Just wait and see what lies ahead.❞
👁️8.0k
🔗❝Every leaf and every plant knows our condition,
The flower may or may not know — but the whole garden knows.❞
The flower may or may not know — but the whole garden knows.❞
👁️7.8k
🔗❝I am not as I appear to be,
The way I truly am, none can see.❞
The way I truly am, none can see.❞
👁️7.5k
🔗❝Who knows what the meaning is of this heartless world.
We came, we stayed, we left — this is the story of every heart.❞
We came, we stayed, we left — this is the story of every heart.❞
👁️7.4k
🔗❝I asked the mirror who I really am,
it too searched for itself within my face.❞
it too searched for itself within my face.❞
👁️7.2k
🔗❝Life is a journey with no fixed end in sight,
Keep walking on — that alone is philosophy's light.❞
Keep walking on — that alone is philosophy's light.❞
👁️7.0k
🔗❝Meeting you, I came to understand,
What it truly means to live as planned.❞
What it truly means to live as planned.❞
👁️6.7k
🔗❝Like a city that has been ruined, so am I,
Estranged from myself, unaware of myself.❞
Estranged from myself, unaware of myself.❞
👁️6.6k
🔗❝I know the truth about paradise, nevertheless,
This thought is good, O Ghalib, to keep the heart content.❞
This thought is good, O Ghalib, to keep the heart content.❞
👁️6.6k
🔗❝A strange life has passed in a strange city,
Waiting — for God knows whom — all this while.❞
Waiting — for God knows whom — all this while.❞
👁️6.3k
🔗❝Trying so hard to forget, I remembered him so much,
I ended up forgetting the very thought of forgetting.❞
I ended up forgetting the very thought of forgetting.❞
👁️6.1k
🔗❝We shall nurture the tablet and pen forever more,
What passes through the heart, the pen shall always explore.❞
What passes through the heart, the pen shall always explore.❞
👁️6.0k
🔗❝Why fear death — it's just another road,
The true test is living life's own code.❞
The true test is living life's own code.❞
👁️5.9k
🔗❝I thought that love would rain down in the monsoon,
But what fell from the sky were sparks of fire.❞
But what fell from the sky were sparks of fire.❞
👁️5.7k
🔗❝The cup the saqi filled with just a glance,
Stole my senses, left my lips in trance.❞
Stole my senses, left my lips in trance.❞
👁️5.6k
🔗❝Time has taught me to pass through with patience,
the one who gave the wounds also heals them.❞
the one who gave the wounds also heals them.❞
👁️5.5k
🔗❝Life is a journey with no destination,
those who set out here are destined to fade.❞
those who set out here are destined to fade.❞
👁️5.6k
🔗❝To live in the heart, live like Ghalib; if you must weep, weep like Mir.
If you must live, live like Faiz; if you must die, die like love.❞
If you must live, live like Faiz; if you must die, die like love.❞
👁️5.5k
🔗❝Ghazal is the interpreter of my pain, the identity of my love.
What is in the heart doesn't come to the tongue — but in ghazal all is expressed.❞
What is in the heart doesn't come to the tongue — but in ghazal all is expressed.❞
👁️5.5k
🔗❝Not wine, but your words leave me intoxicated,
What cup is this that clouds a mind unsedated.❞
What cup is this that clouds a mind unsedated.❞
👁️5.2k
🔗❝What of his coming, what of his going away,
Truly brave is the heart that lives on anyway.❞
Truly brave is the heart that lives on anyway.❞
👁️5.1k
🔗❝I write the ghazal for those who cannot read,
I speak the pain of those who cannot speak.❞
I speak the pain of those who cannot speak.❞
👁️5.1k
🔗❝Even in shattered dreams a lamp still burns,
the flame of hope never truly goes out.❞
the flame of hope never truly goes out.❞
👁️5.0k
🔗❝Where has man paused in today's age — noise everywhere, but the heart is silent.
Ghazal is the language that understands the pain man cannot put into words.❞
Ghazal is the language that understands the pain man cannot put into words.❞
👁️4.9k
🔗❝Hiding one's tears too is an art, my friends,
Smile through the pain that no word can amend.❞
Smile through the pain that no word can amend.❞
👁️4.9k
🔗❝A broken heart too is perhaps an instrument,
the sweetest sound rises only from its pain.❞
the sweetest sound rises only from its pain.❞
👁️4.9k
🔗❝In words I cannot express this tale,
What was lost and gained in life's great gale.
All I know is this truth below,
Love has tormented me so.❞
What was lost and gained in life's great gale.
All I know is this truth below,
Love has tormented me so.❞
👁️4.7k
🔗❝Spring arrived and the whole garden bloomed,
but the branch where you once sat stayed withered.❞
but the branch where you once sat stayed withered.❞
👁️4.5k
🔗❝In love I lost myself so completely and true,
That now my very identity lives in you.❞
That now my very identity lives in you.❞
👁️4.3k
🔗❝Silence too is a language of the heart,
sometimes listen to what it could not say.❞
sometimes listen to what it could not say.❞
👁️4.3k
🔗❝The distance between us is only of the earth,
my heart still dwells wherever you always stay.❞
my heart still dwells wherever you always stay.❞
👁️4.1k
🔗❝The cup the cupbearer gave was filled with grief,
I drank it still — even revelry is a kind of prayer.❞
I drank it still — even revelry is a kind of prayer.❞
👁️4.0k
🔗❝Your name still lives in the lane of my heart,
Time has passed, but the feeling won't depart.❞
Time has passed, but the feeling won't depart.❞
👁️3.8k
🔗❝This heart of mine drowned in your memories,
never quite sank, nor found a shore.❞
never quite sank, nor found a shore.❞
👁️3.9k
🔗❝Reading old letters, time came rushing back,
Your handwriting still holds that fragrant track.❞
Your handwriting still holds that fragrant track.❞
👁️3.7k
🔗❝This chain of separation is strange indeed,
you're not near, yet my heart can't be without you.❞
you're not near, yet my heart can't be without you.❞
👁️3.6k
🔗❝What fate has written will surely come to pass,
But this heart refuses philosophy's cold class.❞
But this heart refuses philosophy's cold class.❞
👁️3.5k
🔗❝Why does the moth so love the flame,
this secret is understood only by burning.❞
this secret is understood only by burning.❞
👁️3.5k
🔗❝The heart's a child, breaking again and again,
Yet melts anew at each fresh smile's refrain.❞
Yet melts anew at each fresh smile's refrain.❞
👁️3.3k
🔗❝The fate once written never changed at all,
we were mere travelers; the path walked itself.❞
we were mere travelers; the path walked itself.❞
👁️3.2k
🔗❝The pain I found in love, I bore it well,
perhaps that was life's greatest earning.❞
perhaps that was life's greatest earning.❞
👁️3.0k
🔗❝All night I stay awake, waiting just for you,
Dawn arrives every time, but you never do.❞
Dawn arrives every time, but you never do.❞
👁️2.9k
🔗❝The moisture in my eyes isn't rain of mine,
it's the grief of your leaving, it won't flow away.❞
it's the grief of your leaving, it won't flow away.❞
👁️2.6k
🔗❝Passing through your city, that season came to mind,
When your name in every street was easy to find.❞
When your name in every street was easy to find.❞
👁️2.5k
🔗❝I asked the night's stars for your whereabouts,
they too stayed silent, only broke and scattered.❞
they too stayed silent, only broke and scattered.❞
👁️2.5k
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