Ghazals Of Ghalib

The Almighty Of Rekhta

Mirza Asadullah Khan (Ghalib)-27-12-1797(Agra) To 15-02-1869 (Delhi)

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Interpretation-Ghazal-24




Oh Asad, I am a limbless beggar, and my display of madness and wilderness is famous even in remote places,
The comb deer's eyelashes is my back-scratcher, that is in the state of madness I leave behind even a wild creature like the deer, even he can not out do me.
(It is said that a deer always used to come to Majnu and Majnu used to use its eyes as a simile for the eyes of Laila.)
(In the state of madness, while wandering in the desert he is moving so fast that even the deer, which is famous for bounding along, remains behind him. For this reason its eyelashes act as a back-scratcher.)
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