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गुलों की तरह हम ने ज़िंदगी को इस कदर जाना

Gulon Ki Tarah Hum Ne Zindagi Ko Is Kadar Jana

Bashir Badr

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5 verses · ~1 min

गुलों की तरह हम ने ज़िंदगी को इस कदर जाना किसी कि ज़ुल्फ़ में इक रात सोना और बिखर जाना

अगर ऐसे गए तो ज़िंदगी पर हर्फ़ आयेगा हवाओं से लिपटना तितलियों को चूम कर जाना

धुनक के रख दिया था बादलों को जिन परिंदों ने उन्हें किसने सिखाया अपने साये से भी डर जाना

कहाँ तक ये दिया बीमार कमरे कि फ़िज़ां बदले कभी तुम एक मुट्ठी धुप इन ताकों में भर जाना

इसी में आफिअत है घर में अपने चैन से बैठो किसी कि स्मित जाना हो तो रस्ते में उतर जाना

इति

Rasa: Shringara
Stanzas: 5
Lines: 10
Reading time: ~1 min
Form: Ghazal
Metre: ghazal
Rhyme: AA BA CA DA EA

Bathed in an atmosphere of tender, bittersweet shringara, the poem evokes a romantic yet fragile world suspended between fleeting union and inevitable dispersion. Visually, a painting of this scene would capture the ephemeral beauty of a butterfly kissing blossoms, a single night spent resting within a lover's dark tresses before scattering into the wind, and shafts of golden sunlight piercing the gloom of a sickroom to warm darkened alcoves. The unfolding narrative contrasts the daring flight of cloud-weaving birds—who paradoxically harbor a sudden, nervous dread of their own shadows—with the quiet resignation of staying safely indoors versus stepping out onto the path to meet an uncertain fate. Ultimately, the artistic tone is deeply contemplative and delicately tragic, wrapping the transience of human life and passion in the soft, melancholic imagery of fading sunlight and falling petals.

गुलों की तरह हम ने ज़िंदगी को इस कदर जाना (Gulon Ki Tarah Hum Ne Zindagi Ko Is Kadar Jana), by Bashir Badr runs to 10 lines across 5 stanzas, set as Two-line stanzas (Sher). Its governing rasa is Shringara, shaded by Karuna. The metre is ghazal. Rhyme falls as AA BA CA DA EA.

It belongs to the 1935 · 1999 span of Bashir Badr's working life, and keeps the plain, spoken register that period is known for.

Read it for जीवन की क्षणभंगुरता और प्रेम में बिखरना and कठिन परिस्थितियों में भी आशा की धूप की चाह. 2 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Usha and Aniruddha: Steeped in a tender and romantic emotional atmosphere, this scene captures a moment of intimate connection and fateful union between the mythological lovers Princess Usha and Prince Aniruddha within the sanctuary of a…

Words worth pausing on

आफ़िअत: कुशलता या सलामती
हर्फ़: आरोप या दोष

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The Poet

बशीर बद्र

Bashir Badr

1935 · 1999

Bashir Badr achieved something exceedingly rare in the modern literary landscape by bringing the Urdu ghazal out of the exclusive courts of intellectuals and directly into the hearts of the common people. Born Syed Muhammad Bashir in 1935 in Ayodhya, he cultivated a poetic voice that used the simplest, most everyday Hindustani vocabulary to express the deepest nuances of love, heartbreak, and social tragedy. His couplets are universally recognized and frequently quoted by individuals who may never have read a formal poetry book. His life was marked by profound personal tragedy, most notably when his home and decades of literary archives were burned to ashes during the communal riots of 1992 in Meerut. Yet, instead of responding with hatred, he channeled his grief into verses that pleaded for communal harmony and human empathy. Honored with the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri in 1999, he later relocated to Bhopal. Bashir Badr stands as a living legend whose ghazals are permanently etched into the cultural memory of the subcontinent.