Famous Couplets
Some of his impeccable couplets are:
| “ | Dikhaai diye yun ke bekhud kiya
Hamen aap se bhi juda kar chale'' (She appeared in such a way that I lost myself And went by taking away my 'self' with her) Looked as if rendered me unconcious away went leaving me separated from me |
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At a higher spiritual level the subject Of Mir's poem in not a woman but God. Mir speaks of man's interaction with the Divine. What affect it has on man when God reveals Himself to man. Dikhaai diye yun ke bekhud kiya When I saw you God I lost all sense of self Hamen aap se bhi juda kar chale When You revealed yourself it separated me from myself
| “ | Gor kis dil jale ki hai ye falak
Shola ek subh yaan se uthta hai'' (What heart-sick sufferer's misery is the sky? an Ember rises hence at dawn) |
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| “ | Ashk aankh mein kab nahi aata
Lahu aata hai jab nahi aata'' (From my eye, when doesn't a tear fall Blood falls when it doesn't fall) |
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| “ | Bekhudi le gai kahaan humko
Der se intezaar hai apna (Where has selflessness taken me I've been waiting for myself for long) |
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| “ | Ibtidaa-e-ishq hai rotaa hai kyaa
Aage aage dekhiye hotaa hai kyaa (Its the beginning of Love, why do you wail Just wait and watch how things unveil) |
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| “ | Likhte ruqaa, likhe gaye daftar
Shauq ne baat kyaa barhaai hai (Started with a scroll, ended up with a record How pursuit escalated the whole thing) |
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| “ | Deedani hai shikastagi dil ki
Kya imaarat ghamon ne dhaai hai (Worth-watching is my heart's crumbling What a citadel have sorrows razed) |
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| “ | Baad marne ke meri qabr pe aaya wo 'Mir'
Yaad aai mere Isa ko dawa mere baad'' (O Mir, She came to my grave after i'd died My messiah came to my aid after i'd died) |
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“How else is the famous short story ‘A study in Abjection’ to be understood but as an outbreak of disgust against an age indecently undermined by psychology.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)