Verse 31855ishtko
G3
1
why would I not be turned/disaffected/oblique from the path and custom of religious-merit?
2
the nib has been cut/attached crooked, to the pen of destiny/'head-written'
'Turned, or altered (from); changed; inverted; turning or departing from allegiance, turning aside (from), disaffected; --crooked; oblique'.
'Marking out, delineating, designing; --sketch, outline, model, plan; way followed (in respect of doctrine and practices of religion, &c.)'.
t>> : 'Cutting (a thing) transversely, sideways, or across; cutting or making a pen, cutting the nib of a pen; --the nib of a pen'.
'A reed; reed-pen, pen; a pencil; a painter's brush; --an engraving tool; --a mode of writing, character, hand-writing'.
'Written on the forehead'; destiny, fate, lot, fortune'.
| References | |
|---|---|
| Arshi, Imtiyaz Ali | Ghazal# 124 |
| Raza, Kalidas Gupta | 459 |
| Hamid Ali Khan | Open Image |
That is, in my very destiny is that I would remain turned aside from the path of religious merit. (126)
== Nazm page 126
He says, 'Why would I not remain turned away from the path and way of religious merit? The pen with which the writer [] of destiny writes, its nib was crooked.' (179)
This verse can be understood as a rakish [] joke. (239)
Compare 161,4 . (248)
This verse is an encyclopedic collection of wordplay of all kinds about writing. The word comes from the same root as , which can mean 'nib of a pen' and 'letter of the alphabet' (Platts p.476). Then means not only the usual 'custom', but also 'sketch' or 'outline'; most centrally, means the nib of a pen; the cutting of the nib of a pen; and a sideways cut. In addition, not only does mean 'pen', etc., but means 'to be cut off'. And then the final major effect: , 'destiny, is that which is 'written on the forehead'.
For 'writing' wordplay, probably the only real rival to this verse is 1,1 . They are similar in their general line of thought as well: both maintain that we humans are like lines (of words or images) on paper, helplessly 'drawn' or 'written' by a casual, careless writer with a crooked pen and a taste for mischief. If we are badly drawn, not only do we acknowledge no guilt-- we firmly lay the responsibility where it belongs: on the pen-wielder.
For after all, it's we who suffer the consequences; remember 110,3 .
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