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Meer Taqi Meer

1723 - 1810 | Delhi, India

One of the greatest Urdu poets, known as Khuda-e-Sukhan (God of Poetry).

One of the greatest Urdu poets, known as Khuda-e-Sukhan (God of Poetry).

Meer Taqi Meer

Ghazal 343

Nazm 1

 

Sher-o-Shayari 255

nāzukī us ke lab kyā kahiye

pañkhuḌī ik gulāb hai

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

The speaker is struck by the beloved’s refined beauty and finds ordinary language inadequate. By comparing the lips to a rose petal, the couplet conveys softness, freshness, and fragile tenderness. The rhetorical question intensifies wonder, suggesting that this beauty is almost beyond expression.

nazuki us ke lab ki kya kahiye

pankhuDi ek gulab ki si hai

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

The speaker is struck by the beloved’s refined beauty and finds ordinary language inadequate. By comparing the lips to a rose petal, the couplet conveys softness, freshness, and fragile tenderness. The rhetorical question intensifies wonder, suggesting that this beauty is almost beyond expression.

rāh-e-dūr-e-ishq meñ rotā hai kyā

aage aage dekhiye hotā hai kyā

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

Meer Taqi Meer presents love as a long, demanding journey where early tears are premature. The speaker urges endurance, hinting that harsher trials may come later. The couplet carries a stoic, almost teasing consolation: don’t collapse at the start; love reveals its true cost as one moves forward.

rah-e-dur-e-ishq mein rota hai kya

aage aage dekhiye hota hai kya

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

Meer Taqi Meer presents love as a long, demanding journey where early tears are premature. The speaker urges endurance, hinting that harsher trials may come later. The couplet carries a stoic, almost teasing consolation: don’t collapse at the start; love reveals its true cost as one moves forward.

pattā pattā buuTā buuTā haal hamārā jaane hai

jaane na jaane gul na jaane baaġh to saarā jaane hai

only the flower's unaware, rest of the garden knows

my state,each leaf and every bud that in the garden grows

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

The speaker’s grief has become so visible that even nature seems aware of it. Each leaf and twig is a witness to the lover’s condition, while the “flower” (the beloved) remains unaware or indifferent. By contrasting the garden’s knowing with the flower’s not knowing, the couplet captures the ache of unreturned attention and public, undeniable sorrow.

patta patta buTa buTa haal hamara jaane hai

jaane na jaane gul hi na jaane bagh to sara jaane hai

only the flower's unaware, rest of the garden knows

my state,each leaf and every bud that in the garden grows

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

The speaker’s grief has become so visible that even nature seems aware of it. Each leaf and twig is a witness to the lover’s condition, while the “flower” (the beloved) remains unaware or indifferent. By contrasting the garden’s knowing with the flower’s not knowing, the couplet captures the ache of unreturned attention and public, undeniable sorrow.

koī tum bhī kaash tum ko mile

mudda.ā ham ko intiqām se hai

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

The speaker’s ‘revenge’ is a moral, ironic wish: that the beloved experiences the same coldness or cruelty from a person just like themselves. By mirroring the beloved’s behavior back to them, the speaker seeks recognition and self-realization rather than harm. The emotional core is wounded love that turns into a desire for the beloved to finally ‘feel’ what the speaker has endured.

koi tum sa bhi kash tum ko mile

muddaa hum ko intiqam se hai

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

The speaker’s ‘revenge’ is a moral, ironic wish: that the beloved experiences the same coldness or cruelty from a person just like themselves. By mirroring the beloved’s behavior back to them, the speaker seeks recognition and self-realization rather than harm. The emotional core is wounded love that turns into a desire for the beloved to finally ‘feel’ what the speaker has endured.

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ab to jaate haiñ but-kade se 'mīr'

phir mileñge agar ḳhudā laayā

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

The couplet is a quiet goodbye filled with uncertainty: the speaker departs from the beloved’s place, called a “but-kadah” in the lover’s idiom. By saying “if God brings it about,” he admits that reunion is not in his control but in fate’s hands. The emotional core is a restrained sadness—hope remains, yet it is surrendered to divine will.

ab to jate hain but-kade se 'mir'

phir milenge agar KHuda laya

Interpretation: Rekhta AI

The couplet is a quiet goodbye filled with uncertainty: the speaker departs from the beloved’s place, called a “but-kadah” in the lover’s idiom. By saying “if God brings it about,” he admits that reunion is not in his control but in fate’s hands. The emotional core is a restrained sadness—hope remains, yet it is surrendered to divine will.

Marsiya 34

Qita 27

Rubai 104

Kulliyat 1896

BOOKS 135

Image Shayari 31

Videos 47

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Audios 47

aa jaa.e.n ham nazar jo ko.ii dam bahut hai yaa.n

baare duniyaa me.n raho Gam-zada yaa shaad raho

baate.n hamaarii yaad rahe.n phir baate.n aisii na suniyegaa

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