Verse 41847aa;Nke liye
G9
In this meter the next-to-last long syllable may be replaced by two shorts.
1
even/also in disaster/affliction, I remained afflicted/immersed in the calamity of jealousy/envy
2
it's a mortal disaster/affliction, your style/grace/coquetry, for a whole/single world
'Sorely tried, afflicted, distressed, distracted, fallen (into, - , evil, or calamity, or trouble), involved (in), overtaken (by); entangled; fascinated, enamoured (of)
| References | |
|---|---|
| Arshi, Imtiyaz Ali | Ghazal# 211 |
| Raza, Kalidas Gupta | 388-89 |
| Hamid Ali Khan | Open Image |
And even if it was a disaster, it should have been for me alone-- why did it happen to the whole world? (265)
== Nazm page 265
He says, if only I alone had been absorbed in a disaster! If your style/coquetry was a disaster, then it should have been so for me only. I would have obtained escape from the disaster of jealousy/envy. The cruelty is that your style/coquetry has been established as a mortal disaster for the whole world. (324)
The beloved is so disastrously beautiful that whoever saw her became absorbed in passion. Then he praises her style/coquetry: this is no commonplace disaster-- rather, it's a mortal disaster. (504)
Compare 179,2 . (311}
What an insistent show of wordplay! We have , (which comes from the same root), (which has virtually the same meaning), and another . Then we also have the nice sound/meaning pair of and , the single 'life' versus the 'world'.
The first line is vague enough so that we can't really tell where it's going. And the second line is a conventional enough expression of praise. Only when we put the two lines together, through the power of implication , do we get something beyond the ordinary.
For as the commentators observe, the lover resents the ability of a 'whole' world [] to share in his exquisite suffering. (For more on idiomatic usages of , see 6,6 .) The lover complains not of disasters and calamities caused by the beloved's deadly charm, but only of the miseries of jealousy/envy. If only he could have those disasters and calamities for himself alone, and didn't have to share them so intolerably with all and sundry! For more on the complexities of , see 53,4 . The lover isn't always so madly possessive, however: see 62,4 for a witty and light-hearted look at the same situation.
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