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قرار دل کا یہ کاہے کو ڈھنگ تھا آگے Qaraar-e-dil ka ye kaahe ko dhang tha aage

Ghazal by Mir Taqi Mir میر تقی میر (1723–1810) · 5 couplets

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قرار دل کا یہ کاہے کو ڈھنگ تھا آگے

ہمارے چہرے کے اوپر بھی رنگ تھا آگے

qaraar-e-dil ka ye kaahe ko dhang tha aage

hamaare chehre ke oopar bhi rang tha aage

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اٹھائیں تیرے لیے بد زبانیاں ان کی

جنہوں کی ہم کو خوشامد سے ننگ تھا آگے

uthaaeen tere liye bad-zabaaniyaan un ki

jinhon ki ham ko khushaamad se nang tha aage

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ہماری آہوں سے سینے پہ ہو گیا بازار

ہر ایک زخم کا کوچہ جو تنگ تھا آگے

hamaari aahon se seene pe ho gaya baazaar

har ek zakhm ka koocha jo tang tha aage

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رہا تھا شمع سے مجلس میں دوش کتنا فرق

کہ جل بجھے تھے یہ ہم پر پتنگ تھا آگے

raha tha sham' se majlis mein dosh kitna farq

ki jal-bujhe the ye ham par patang tha aage

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کیا خراب تغافل نے اس کے ورنہ میرؔ

ہر ایک بات پہ دشنام و سنگ تھا آگے

kiya kharaab taghaaful ne us ke warna 'Mir'

har ek baat pe dushnaam-o-sang tha aage

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Source: Kulliyat-e-Mir, Ghazaliyat (Diwan 1)

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About this ghazal

A ghazal of "aage", how things used to be. The heart was never this restless before, Mir says, and there was once colour in his face too. For the beloved he has put up with the abuse of people whose flattery he once thought beneath him; his sighs have turned every narrow lane of wounds on his chest into an open bazaar. Last night in the gathering he and the candle differed only in that the moth burned first. In the closing couplet it is the beloved's indifference that ruined him: before, there was at least a curse and a stone for every word. Given in full.

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