Friday 30 May 2014

Ghalib ghazal 76

bīm-e raqīb se nahīñ karte vidāʿ-e hosh

majbūr yāñ talak huʾe ay iḳhtiyār ḥaif

jaltā hai dil kih kyūñ nah ham ik bār jal gaʾe

ay nā-tamāmī-e nafas-e shuʿlah-bār ḥaif


We quit not Consciousness for fear of the Rival- Alas!
Love constrains Love for its very Survival- Alas!
Oh arsonist heart, why spared you my factory?
A bankrupt so burnt, yet Love is refractory- Alas!

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