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अर्श के तारे तोड़ के लाएँ काविश लोग हजार करें

Arsh Ke Tare Tod Ke Laen Kavish Log Hajar Karein

Ibn-e-Insha

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7 verses · ~1 min

अर्श के तारे तोड़ के लाएँ काविश लोग हजार करें ‘मीर’ की बात कहाँ से पाएँ आख़िर को इक़रार करें

आप इसे हुस्न-ए-तलब मत समझें ना कुछ और शुमार करें शेर इक ‘मीर’ फ़क़ीर का हम जो आप के गोश गुज़ार करें

आज हमारे घर आया लो क्या है जो तुझ पे निसार करें इल्ला खींच बग़ल में तुझ को देर तलक हम प्यार करें

कब की हमारे इश्क़ की नौबत क़ैस से आगे जा पहुँची रस्मन लोग अभी तक उस मरहूम का ज़िक्र अज़कार करें

दुर्ज-ए-चश्म में अश्क के मोती ले जाने हैं उन के हुज़ूर चोखा रंग लहू का दे कर और उन्हें शहवार करें

दीन ओ दिल ओ जाँ सब सरमाया जिस में अपना सर्फ़ हुआ इश्क़ ये कारोबार नहीं क्या और जो कारोबार करें

जितने भी दिल रीश हैं उस के सब को नामे भेज बुला उस बे-मेहर वफ़ा दुश्मन की यादों का दरबार करें

इति

Rasa: Shringara
Stanzas: 7
Lines: 14
Reading time: ~1 min
Form: Ghazal
Metre: ghazal
Rhyme: AA BA CA DA EA FA GA

This passionate ghazal evokes a deeply romantic yet bittersweet emotional atmosphere, balancing the ecstatic surrender of devotion with the agonizing calculus of unrequited longing. Visually, a painting of this scene would depict a dimly lit chamber where a humble lover sits in rapt attention, offering tear-filled eyes and bleeding wounds as precious pearls to an indifferent beloved, while outside, starry skies mock the futile grand gestures of ordinary suitors. Symbolically, the poem frames love not as a poetic transaction or a conventional business of mutual exchange, but as a total ruin and supreme devotion that surpasses even legendary tragedies like that of Qais (Majnun). The overall artistic tone is one of intense, devotional heartbreak—simultaneously proud of its radical self-sacrifice and painfully aware of the beloved's merciless coldness.

अर्श के तारे तोड़ के लाएँ काविश लोग हजार करें (Arsh Ke Tare Tod Ke Laen Kavish Log Hajar Karein), by Ibn-e-Insha runs to 14 lines across 7 stanzas, set as Seven couplets (Sher). Its governing rasa is Shringara, shaded by Karuna. The metre is ghazal. Rhyme falls as AA BA CA DA EA FA GA.

It belongs to the 1927 · 1978 span of Ibn-e-Insha's working life, and keeps the plain, spoken register that period is known for.

Read it for शायरी की परंपरा और मीर का स्थान and प्रेम का व्यापार. 3 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Rani Roopmati and Sultan Baz Bahadur: Set against the rolling hills of Malwa, this poignant portrait exudes a romantic and melancholic atmosphere where earthly love transcends into a spiritual bond. Sultan Baz Bahadur kneels in absolute, reverent surrender…

Words worth pausing on

काविश: कोशिश या प्रयास
गोश गुज़ार: सुनाना या कान में डालना
शहवार: उत्कृष्ट या मूल्यवान

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Ibn-e-Insha

1927 · 1978

Sher Muhammad Khan, immortalized under the pen name Ibn-e-Insha, was a literary wanderer who observed the world with a brilliant mix of deep melancholy and razor sharp wit. Born in 1927 in the Jalandhar district of Punjab, he migrated to Pakistan and became one of the most beloved Urdu poets and travelogue writers of his generation. His most famous ghazal Insha Ji Utho Ab Kooch Karo carries an overwhelming sense of world weariness and final departure, sung beautifully by generations of classical vocalists. Yet, alongside this intense sorrow, he authored travelogues filled with hilarious, biting satire that dissected human follies across the globe. He served in the United Nations, traveling extensively before his premature death in London in 1978. He remains the poet of the restless soul, wrapping profound existential grief inside breathtaking lyrical beauty.