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-52





1.
Even if some individual lives until doomsday,
Then so what,it is necessary to die,he will die on doomsday.
(Dying on doomsday has created this pleasure,that on doomsday dead come to life.)
(For someone to die on that day will not be devoid of pleasure.)


2.
The food of passion is blood,passion has been nourished by drinking the blood of my liver,
Thus passion,the drinker of pure blood addresses it as beneficent master.
(Today at this stage,except for me no one has the enthusiasm or the heart to feel passion.Passion lives thank to me.)


3.
The enemy wanted me to be proved unfaithful,but I gave my life in the path of faithfulness,
So I congratulate myself.
(Through obtaining martyrdom I have become one who has eternal life.Thus I will remain in a good state.)
(One more possibility.Because the beloved does not appreciate his supreme sacrifice,the beloved even may be the enemy,who has opposed his dying,and in defiance of whom he has died.Thus enjoyed the martyrdom.)


4.
If I did not obtain a sight of the High Court Of God himself,and did not obtain sense fit for the essence,then so it be,
Seeing the colorful aspects of the world of the senses,I have obtained perfect belief in the existence of God Most High,for someone is the creator of this world.
(If there is no access to the world of meaning,then let it be so.May the miracle and revolving of the world of appearance remain well,for it is a mirror of the God of meaning.)
(If the meaning is not attained,then so it be,appearance is satisfactory,I will manage with that.)
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