h2>Dating : POST 50: Dil hi to Hai na sange khist ,dard se bhar na aye kyon?
This ghazal has been written by Mirza Asad-Ullah Khan Ghalib, which vividly depicts the helplessness of the lover! The beloved is the epitome of beauty, brilliance and desirable even if she is unfaithful!! Ghalib lived from December 1797 to 1869. He witnessed the first war of independence of 1857,although he presumed it would fail. He was from a family of soldiers and the first to break the tradition. He was very poor in handling financial matters to the extent that he had to go through actual imprisonment for more than three months for dues not paid. He was fond of moving in high society although his finances did not support it.
Ghalib has been accused of using difficult wordings and a look at the long list of important words proves the point!
- Here is Chitra Singh, rightfully a maestra herself, who has sung this ghazal, probably, one of her best, wherein she had excelled herself under the music direction of late Jagjit Singh. She is a Bengali ghazal singer, who was married to maestro Jagjit Singh. She had stopped singing in 1990 when her 20 years old son expired in a road accident. She is 76 years old now. She had practically retired from music scene in 1990. This ghazal is from the TV serial ‘ Mirza ghalib’.
The same ghazal has been sung by Jagjit Singh ,in the same TV serial.
Important words:
संग-ओ-ख़िश्त: stone or rubble; दैर: temple or mosque; हरम: literally the pyramid but means any monument here, also means the zanankhana, where ladies live in isolation; आस्ताँ: abode; जमाल-ए-दिल-फ़रोज़: face that lights up the heart; जमाल-ए-दिल-फ़रोज़: a face as brilliant as the mid-day Sun; नज़्ज़ारा-सोज़:spectacle of ardour and passion; दश्ना-ए-ग़म्ज़ा: dagger of coquetry;जाँ-सिताँ: beloved; नावक-ए-नाज़:arrows of love; क़ैद-ए-हयात: prison for the whole life; बंद-ए-ग़म: bondage of unhappiness; हुस्न-ए-ज़न:optimistic expectation; बुल-हवस: Debauch; ए’तिमाद: confidence; ग़ुरूर-ए-इज्ज़-ओ-नाज़: pride for the beloved;हिजाब-ए-पास-ए-वज़अ:honour of the circumstances; ख़ुदा-परस्त: pious, having faith in God, ‘ग़ालिब’-ए-ख़स्ता: Ghalib in distress, fallen on bad times;
दिल ही तो है न संग-ओ-ख़िश्त दर्द से भर न आए क्यूँ ?
रोएँगे हम हज़ार बार कोई हमें सताए क्यूँ ?
After all it is my heart and not stone or rubble, why would it not overflow with grief and pain?
I weep a thousand times, why should anyone torment me, harass me?
दैर नहीं हरम नहीं दर नहीं आस्ताँ नहीं
बैठे हैं रहगुज़र पे हम ग़ैर हमें उठाए क्यूँ ?
It is not a temple or the mosque ,also it is not a pyramid
Neither is it a door to her house nor a threshold of her abode !
I am sitting on the road she frequents, why should the rivals evict me?
वो जमाल-ए-दिल-फ़रोज़ सूरत-ए-मेहर-ए-नीमरोज़
आप ही हो नज़्ज़ारा-सोज़ पर्दे में मुँह छुपाए क्यूँ ?
When she is the one whose face lights up the heart, a face that glows like the midday Sun!
She herself is a heart wrenching spectacle, an object of passion and ardour, why should she hide her face in a veil ?
दश्ना-ए-ग़म्ज़ा जाँ-सिताँ नावक-ए-नाज़ बे-पनाह
तेरा ही अक्स-ए-रुख़ सही सामने तेरे आए क्यूँ ?
Oh my beloved ! You are the epitome of coquetry, throwing innumerable deadly arrows of love, from which escape is impossible!
Agreed it is the reflection of your face and not your face ,still why should I come face to face with it?
क़ैद-ए-हयात ओ बंद-ए-ग़म अस्ल में दोनों एक हैं
मौत से पहले आदमी ग़म से नजात पाए क्यूँ ?
Imprisonment for life or bondage of suffering are one and the same!
So why should I be reprieved from pain and sorrow even before death?
हुस्न और उस पे हुस्न-ए-ज़न रह गई बुल-हवस की शर्म
अपने पे ए’तिमाद है ग़ैर को आज़माए क्यूँ ?
Oh beautiful, with a reputation of favourable expectations,
I have been saved from shame of the reputation of a debauch!
I have faith, confidence in my own self, why should I test the rivals?
वाँ वो ग़ुरूर-ए-इज्ज़-ओ-नाज़ याँ ये हिजाब-ए-पास-ए-वज़अ
राह में हम मिलें कहाँ बज़्म में वो बुलाए क्यूँ
Here, she ,the beloved, is proud of her status her grandeur and I can not compromise with my honour!
We were not strolling together like lovers, we were not friendly,
why should she call me to the gathering?
हाँ वो नहीं ख़ुदा-परस्त जाओ वो बेवफ़ा सही !
जिस को हो दीन ओ दिलअज़ीज़ उस की गली में जाए क्यूँ ?
Yes, she is not God fearing or pious, agreed she is unfaithful, treacherous!
Anyone who has faith in his God, who cares for his heart, why should he visit her neighbourhood?
‘ग़ालिब’-ए-ख़स्ता के बग़ैर कौन से काम बंद हैं ?
रोइए ज़ार ज़ार क्या कीजिए हाए हाए क्यूँ ?
Which works or routines have stopped just because Ghalib is in apathetic and battered condition!
Why should Ghalib weep uncontrollably, copiously and why should he continue to lament, complain?
2. Padma Bhushan BEGUM Akhtar, the ‘ Mallika -e- Ghazal’ imparts her voice to this complicated ghazal in her inimitable voice. Not many know she acted in some Hindi films during 1934–35 including Ameena (1934);Mumtaz Begum (1934); Jawani ka Nasha (1935) etc. wherein she sang all her songs herself. Her last stint was in Satyajit Rays movie ‘Jalsa ghar’ .
3. Shakeel Ahmed is a music composer and singer with intimate knowledge of Indian classical music — raagdari. He is a live performer as well. He is known for impeccable pronunciation of Urdu words. He hails from a musically inclined family from Delhi.
4. Shumona Roy Biswas belongs to a renowned family of musicians. She was fortunate to have been trained in thumri, dadra and ghazal under Pandit Birju Maharaj.
5.Ablda Parveen is a Pakistani Sufi singer (born 20/02/1954), who is a “ Global Mystic Sufi Ambassador”. She has the capability of making her audience hysterical. She sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Saraiki Punjabi, Arabic and Persian. She has a large following even in India. She had been awarded ‘ Nishan -e-Imtiaz’ second highest civilian award, in 2012 and ‘Hilal -e Imtiaz’, the highest civilian award in Pakistan, in 2021.She is a peace Ambassador of SAARC.
6. Anita Singhvi (Born 22/07/1964) was born in a business family at Jodhpur, Rajasthan. She specialises in Sufi music, who honed her talent under the tutelage of guru Pandit Kshirsagar from Gawalior Gharana. she is married to Congress leader and noted lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
Dil hi to hai, aap par quon na lut jai ye. My heart wants you to enjoy this beautiful but complicated ghazal which needed such a sensitive handling that it tested my capabilities and I am still not perfectly happy with the outcome, but then this is the best I could do! Please enjoy the five variants!!
