Interpretation-Ghazal-77

1.

I fear unconsciousness because the rival will get up to some game with the beloved,

This is love at the extreme that one is not even in control of his own consciousness.

(Oh! control, alas for our helpless situation, you and I are trapped, suffering together, so whatever we do is a painful and oppressive choice.)

(Oh control, alas that you are so week. Since I am so, oppressed by the fear of the rival that I do not even have control over when to lose consciousness.)

(Ghalib does not let me resolve the situation.)

2.

The heart feels envious over the fact that every breath produces a movement of incendiary sparks, but incomplete ones, why do not I burn up completely,

But incompleteness and unsuccessfulness prevent me from burning all at once.

(In so many places Ghalib has versified this medical problem.)

(The burning takes place not once, but many times, so that I feel I have died a thousand deaths.)

(I am jealous of those lovers who have attained what I have failed to attain.)

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