Verse 10x1816aa;Nho jaa))egaa
G1
1
if that one intoxicated with coquetry will give a call/invitation for a presentation/petition
2
the rose-thorn, for the rose's mouth, will become a tongue
'Calling or inviting (beggars, &c.), to receive or partake of food; invitation; annunciation; proclamation; voice, call, cry'.
'Statement, or representation, of a case, memorial, petition'.
'On account of, for the sake of, for'.
| References | |
|---|---|
| Arshi, Imtiyaz Ali | Ghazal# 24 |
| Raza, Kalidas Gupta | 155-156 |
| Nuskhah-e-Hamidiyah | 70-71 |
| Gyan Chand | 106 |
| Hamid Ali Khan | Open Image |
If that lofty-ranked beloved would command the lovers to make a presentation/petition, then even the flowers, who are among her lovers and are tongueless, would make a thorn into a tongue and express their wretched condition. It is clear that in her presence, a flower has no status.
== Gyan Chand, p. 106
For background see S. R. Faruqi's choices . This verse is NOT one of his choices; I have added it myself, mostly for the sake of completeness. For more on Ghalib's unpublished verses, see the discussion in 4,8x .
The blooming rose's shape gives it a 'mouth'; generally this 'mouth' is used for smiling or laughing (often ironically, because of its own imminent withering and death). Or else the rose speaks in the , the wordless 'language' of the condition it's in. In the present verse, it uses its mouth for actual speaking, by pressing into service a thorn to act as a tongue. So incomparably great is the beloved's authority that the rose had no more choice about obeying her than did any other hapless lover.
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