Saturday, December 20, 2008

Ghazal 55: gila kyaa, gar naheeN miltaa hai manzil kaa nishaaN mujhko




gila kyaa, gar naheeN miltaa hai manzil kaa nishaaN mujhko
nishaat.aavar hai aavaaz-e-raheel-e-kaarvaaN mujhko

voh, jis se ho sake haasil suroor-e-jaavidaaN mujhko
koi aisa pilaa de jaam, ai peer-e-muGhaaN, mujhko

yeh duniya, be.vafaa duniya, vafaa naa.aashnaa duniya!
bhalaa miltaa bhi kyaa is meiN rafeeq-o-raazdaaN mujhko!

na jaane ab talak voh shaKhs kyoN hai bad.gumaaN mujh se
naheeN jis ke sivaa koi Khayaal-e-een-o-aaN mujhko

kahaaN haiN din voh bachpan ke, kahaaN voh pal laRakpan ke?
lage hai ab mata'a-e-'umr raKhsh-e-be.'inaaN mujhko!

gulistaan-e-jahaaN meiN hooN bisaan-e-barg-e-aavaaraa
"Khudaa jaane kahaaN le jaaye ab baad-e-KhizaaN mujhko"

ta'alluq dair se, rishta haram se hai, to bas itnaa --
musalsal looTa jaata hai inheeN ke darmiyaaN mujhko

"rumooz-e-jalva.haa-e-husn se maiN Khoob vaaqif hooN" (1)
nazar aata hai har soo us ka sang-e-aastaaN mujhko

zameen-e-Mus'hafi meiN keh to dee maine Ghazal, 'naadaaN'
Khabar kis ko, kahenge kya suKhan ke qadr.daaN mujhko!

(DECEMBER 20, 2008 - ARLINGTON, TX - USA)

(1) "Raaz" Chandpuri

misr'a-e-tarah [** in the zameen of Mus'hafi ]:
"Khudaa jaane kahaaN le jaaye ab baad-e-KhizaaN mujhko"

for a telecon-mush'aira (Sat 12/20/2008) between:
Dallas/Houston/Oklahoma City.

(sadaarat: Janaab Haneef 'Akhgar' Maleehaabadi
naazim: Janaab Hammad Hasan, Houston - Gahvaara-e-Adab)

** NOTE:
We were given this line as the "tarah" and told it was written
by Mus'hafi. Subsequent research into a 11 volume set of Mus'hafi
shows 2 Ghazals of Mus'hafi in the same zameen, but this line does
not appear in either.

It is possible that someone did say a Ghazal based on Mus'hafi, and
the line given to us was incorrectly attributed.




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