❝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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🔗कोई उम्मीद बर नहीं आती, — Mirza Ghalib | Ghazal Shayari
About Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, known by his pen name 'Ghalib', was the most dominant Urdu and Persian-language poet of the Mughal Era. His pen name Ghalib means 'dominant' or 'superior'. His work is celebrated for its complex imagery, philosophical depth, and a unique blend of mysticism and worldly experience.
Born: Agra, India · Era: 1797–1869 · Specialty: Ghazal, Shayari
📚 Famous Works
Diwan-e-GhalibDastambuUrdu-e-Mualla
About Ghazal Shayari
Ghazal is the most refined and enduring form in Urdu-Hindi poetry — a series of independent couplets bound by rhyme and refrain. This collection of works by Mirza Ghalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mir Taqi Mir, and Bashir Badr suits readers who want to understand the classical tradition, recite verses aloud, or savor a single sher at a time.
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❤️Mohabbat⭐ Featured
❝Thousands of desires, each worth dying for,
Many of them I have fulfilled, yet I yearn for more.❞
Many of them I have fulfilled, yet I yearn for more.❞
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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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🔗❝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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🔗❝I know the true nature of paradise, but then,
To keep the heart glad, O Ghalib, this fancy's good to pen.❞
To keep the heart glad, O Ghalib, this fancy's good to pen.❞
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🔗❝Thousands of desires, each worth dying for I say,
Many I fulfilled, yet too few were met along the way.❞
Many I fulfilled, yet too few were met along the way.❞
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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
❝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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