#Ghalib

[rekhtaa]

Ek samundar hai jo mere kaabu mein hai, Aur ek katra hai jo mujhse sambhala nahi jaata. Ek umr hai jo bitaani hai tere baghair, Aur ek lamha hai jo mujhse guzaara nahi jaata

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Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 01:01 AM, Bangalore, India

[ihateyouvishal]

apologising after you've done something irreversible means nothing because "qabrein jitni bhi saja lo, koi zinda nahi hota"

[natkhat-sa-shyam]

Manifesting to marry someone who's into literature so that we both can go to 'Jashn-e-Rekhta' every year!

[maihonhassan]

Famous lines of Mirza Ghalib:

Dil phir tawaf-e-ku-e-malamat ko jae hai , Pindar ka sanam-kada viran kiye hue

My heart repeatedly repairs to those avenues, Where I will lose all self respect, be subject to abuse

Ji dhundta hai phir wahi fursat ki raat din , baithe rahen tasawwur-e-jaanan kiye hue

Again this heart seeks those days of leisure as of yore, Sitting just enmeshed in thoughts of my paramour

[guywithasmirk]

the text I unsent :

saari duniya ke gham hamare hain,

aur sitam yeh hai ke hum tumhare hai.

main kya kahun ke mujhe sabr kyun nahin aata

main kya karun ke tujhe dekhne ki aadat hai

[sufiblackmamba]

ہم کو ان سے ہے وفا کی امید جو نہیں جانتے وفا کیا ہے

We hope for devotion from those,

Who know not what devotion truly means

[chaakjigar]

Dard se mere hai tujhko beqarari haaye haaye, Kiya hui zaalim teri ghaflat-sheari haaye haaye

Tere dil mein gar na tha aashob-e-gham ka hosla, Tu ne phir kyun ki thi meri gham-gusaari haaye haaye

Kyun meri gham-khargi ka tujhko aiya tha khayal, Dushmani apni thi meri dost-daari haaye haaye

Umr bhar ka tu ne paeman-e-wafa bandha to kiya, Umr bhar ko bhi to nahi hae paedaari haaye haaye

Zahar lagti hae mujhe aab-o-hawa-e-zindagi, Yaani tujh se thi ise nasaaz-gaari haaye haaye

Gul-fishaani hai, naz-e-jalwa ko kiya ho gaya? Khaak per hoti hae teri lalakaari haaye haaye

Sharm-e-rusawaae se ja chupna naqaab-e-khaak mein, Khatam hae ulfat ki tujh per parda-dari haaye haaye

Khaak mein namoos-e-paeman-e-muhabat mil gae, Uth gai se dunya se rah-o-rasm-e-yari haaye haaye

haath hi tegh-azma ka kaam se jaata raha dil pe ik lagne na paaya zakhm-e-kaari haaye haaye

kis tarah kaate koi shab-ha-e-tar-e-barshigal hai nazar khu-karda-e-akhtar-shumari haaye haaye

gosh mahjur-e-payam o chashm-e-mahrum-e-jamal ek dil tis par ye na-ummid-vaari haaye haaye

Ishq ne pakra na tha Ghalib abhi wehshat ka rang, Reh gaya dil mein jo kuch zauq-e-khari haaye haaye

Dard se mere hae tujhko beqarari haae haae, Kiya huwi zaalim teri ghaflat-sheari haaye haaye

–Ghalib

[noorjehan]

"itni wafadaari na kar kisi se madhosh hokar Ghalib,

yahan log ek galati par hazaron wafaein bhool jaate hai"

[not-a-nice-man-to-know]

"Kahan hain aap?"

Ghalib:

"Hum wahan hain jahan hum ko bhi

Kuch hamari khabar nahi aati "

[komal01]

Ek tere kun pe yakeen karke mere maula;

Hum bhi kisi se mohabbat be intehaa kar baithe hain

[zayrayyy]

Rooh -E - Mann

Kitne bhi sitam tu kyun na kar mujh pe

Ho shikaytein, narazgiyan ya faasle

Par ek dfa tu jo pukaare mujhe

Rooh e mann !!

Yaad phir kya rahe?

Na sawaal rahe , na shikaytein

Na Mai rahu , na koi aur dikhe

Bas khayal tere, tu hi tu rahe..

Mai bhul jau narazgiyan, bhula doon gile sab

Mai thaam loon anaayein, vaar doon tujh pe sab

Mai bhul jau shikve, chor doon nafs

Mai bhula doon khud ko bhi, yaad rakhu tujhko bas..

Ishq me nafsiyati houn, kar jau aisa kuch

Mita kar vajood apna, ho jau Teri bas...

Mai sanwaar loon khud ko, tu aaja hisse mere

Mangu Khair Teri, sadqe jau yaar tere...

Tu hayat meri , tujh pe qurban jau

Tu Jeet jaa mujhse, Mai haar jau

Aur kya likhu? kaise mai Ishq jatau ?

Chura loon tujhe, ishq me kamli ho jau

(ثمرین ) نفسیاتی مریضہ ~

[rekhtaa]

Suna hai bohot baarish ho rahi hai tumhare sheher mein,

Zyada bheegna mat,

Galat fehmiyan dhul gayi, toh hum bohot yaad aayenge

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Thursday, Aug 22, 2024

8:45 PM Bangalore, India

[the-nerd-of-chaos]

"bāzīcha-e-atfāl hai duniyā mire aage hotā hai shab-o-roz tamāshā mire aage"

The world is a children’s playground before me Night and Day, this theatre is enacted before me

[tejaswiii]

Woh bhi naye logo mein masroof ho gaya,

Humne bhi usay hamari yaad dilana chorh diya.

[6peaches]

Aseem Kaul - Ghalib

Tonight, you recite Ghalib from memory; because poetry, like blood, must come from the heart.

Taking a sip from your glass after every couplet, the scotch rhyming perfectly the melancholy on your tongue.

You cling to nostalgia like an empty mirror, to the scent of this language that withers like flowers.

You gather pain the way the sky gathers, pinprick by slow pinprick, the stars.

Somewhere between question and answer the feeling dissolves. The need to sing becomes

the struggle not to fall. And you arrange your ruins into one last gesture,

knowing the Beloved will not heed your call, knowing she will prove false, like God, or the Moon.

***

You write to me from Delhi, speak of summer blackouts,

of how, disconnected from the machines, you thought of Ghalib –

the bomb blast of his grief leaving the city in ruins –

and how the history of loss could be written on a feather.

When the power returned you turned the lights off,

lit a candle to see the darkness a little better,

and still the shadows were not the same.

***

“Madness”, Ghalib writes, “is never without its reasons; surely there is something that the veil is meant to protect”

And I think of all the years we have spent listening to these ghazals, the verses

falling from our lips like pieces of exquisite glass from broken window frames;

shaping our mouths to his sadness, unbuttoning our collars to let his words stain

the rubbed language of our songs. What have we been hiding from,

my friend? What longing is this inside us that we disguise in a dead man’s clothes?

[guywithasmirk]

gham aisa mila ke baat namaz tak jaa pohochi

ek sajda hi kiya ke baat khuda tak jaa pohochi

— Allama Iqbal