Interpretation-Ghazal-43



1.
Jealousy says that there is true love between the beloved and the rival,
And wisdom says that that unfaithful one has never been anyone's friend.
(Nowadays our life is passing in a struggle between wisdom and jealousy.)
(This is the very complex matter. Whatever beloved does, the result is suffering for the lover.)
2.
In the world every single sand -grain has the power of deceit and trickery of every single glass in a wine house,
Look at Majnu, his wandering in madness are at the behest of Laila alone.
(All the fascination-making in the world is taking place at the behest of God.)
(Every sand-grain of the world is a state of fascination.)
3.
The property of the lords of weakness, humans who are made of dust, is the coquetry of passion,
By reason of which nothing of a sand-grain becomes the desert and an insubstantial drop becomes the sea.
(Human who is made of dust have an insubstantial existence, make such progress that, they obtain access to the Exalted Divine Court, thanks to passion.)
(To search out such a grouping of words is no easy task. It was possible only for Ghalib.)
4.
I have been forced to raise this wild heart, which is a fragment of disaster,
And the enemy of repose, it does not even let me sit in my house in peace. In the madness of passion, it drags me from street to street and lane to lane.
(It is an affectionate abuse directed at the intimate.)
5
Jealousy and suspicion are both creators of displeasure, we ought to ignore both the disasters,
Because knees are my friend, I always have my head on my knees. And the mirror is your friend. You are always absorbed in it. You ought not to complain, nor ought I to take it amiss.
(You are absorbed in the mirror, I do not complain. And if I am absorbed with heads on the knees(Thought Process)then you also should not complain.)
6.
Oh "Asad", when Kohkan(Farhad) carved through the pillar-less mountain his purpose was to make a shadowy picture of Shirin,
That foolish one did not understand, as if you can make a beloved by striking your head with a stone.
(The meaning is that his passion was no perfect.)
(He was only a sculptor, not a true lover. Otherwise, he would have taken up painting to create Shirin.)
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