جنوں کی دست گیری کس سے ہو گر ہو نہ عریانی Junoon ki dastgiri kis se ho gar ho na uryaani

About this ghazal

One of Ghalib's dense early ghazals on madness and longing. If nakedness does not come to madness's aid, who will? The torn collar now has a claim on the lover's neck. Restlessness is a burnt sheet of paper holding a thousand mirrors on the wing of a single flutter, and the poet presses the sky for lost pleasures as if loot were a debt the robber owes. 2 couplets of the original are not included here.