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zindagii tanhaa safar kii raat hai

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Posted on Sunday, August 27th, 2006 and filed under Ghazals, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Poets.

zindagii tanhaa safar kii raat hai
apne apne hausle kii baat hai

kis aqiide kii duhaa’ii deejiye
har aqiidah aaj be-auqaat hai

(aqiidah : belief; be-auqaat : without value)

kyaa pataa pahuNcheNge kab manzil talak
ghaTte-baRhte faasiloN kaa saat(h) hai

(saat(h) : company)

Jan Nisar Akhtar

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chaaNd tanhaa hai aasmaaN tanhaa
ye dil ye paagal dil meraa, kyuN bujh gayaa aavaargii
raat jaagaa huuN to sochaa kyaa hai
tanhaa ishq ke khwaab na bun
ai dil-e-raayegaaN udaas udaas

4 Responses to “zindagii tanhaa safar kii raat hai”

stanvir on August 28th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

Mohib sahib,

aakhri she’r is ghazal ka naheeN hai. baihr aur qaafiya donoN hi mukhtalif haiN.
Mohib on August 28th, 2006 at 4:41 pm

My bad, the second line is:

ghaTte baRhte faasiloN kaa saat(h) hai

Can saat be written for saath?
stanvir on August 28th, 2006 at 5:08 pm

saat and saath are parsed the same as far as ‘taqtee’ is concerned. However, correct me if I am wrong, but the first misra is still not in the same baihr as the rest of the ghazal.
Mohib on August 28th, 2006 at 6:00 pm

Really sorry, sometimes the mind refuses to work. Especially when you are pre-occupied with something else.
Thanks so much for pointing out the error. I have made the correction, it should be fine now.