Ghazal 'Niyat-e-Shauq Bhar Na Jaaye Kahin' (my rendition of the ghazal by Late Nasir Kazmi)
Update: 2022-11-26
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I have attempted a geet-numa-ghazal (a ghazal sung in light, song form) written by Late Nasir Kazmi (1925-1972). In this romantic poem written in simple Urdu, an ardent lover voices both his longing for his beloved as well as the apprehensions this love arouses in his mind. His fears indicate both the depth of romantic love as well as its fragility. He engages in gentle irony by wondering if he may at some date, weary of even she who has so besotted him. The rest of the couplets however contradict this fear by describing how, when he meets her after a long time, he fears that the day will end too soon. He solicitously advises her not to engage with sad people lest her beauty scatter in their burdensome company. His deep desire is that she come to him and then not leave for their entire lifetime. He keeps fretting about attaining his love, and what its fate will be, and, again, ironically comments that even this habit of tormenting himself with such thoughts is perhaps a skill not to be wasted. In the last couplet, there is a sense of melancholy where he invites his beloved to spend a little time with him just shedding tears together, lest the swelling river of emotion recede leaving them stranded.
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