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फ़र्ज़ करो

Farz Karo

Ibn-e-Insha

1 min read 5 versesImagination Love Illusion

5 verses · ~1 min

फ़र्ज़ करो हम अहले वफ़ा हों, फ़र्ज़ करो दीवाने हों फ़र्ज़ करो ये दोनों बातें झूठी हों अफ़साने हों

फ़र्ज़ करो ये जी की बिपता, जी से जोड़ सुनाई हो फ़र्ज़ करो अभी और हो इतनी, आधी हमने छुपाई हो

फ़र्ज़ करो तुम्हें ख़ुश करने के ढूंढे हमने बहाने हों फ़र्ज़ करो ये नैन तुम्हारे सचमुच के मयख़ाने हों

फ़र्ज़ करो ये रोग हो झूठा, झूठी पीत हमारी हो फ़र्ज़ करो इस पीत के रोग में सांस भी हम पर भारी हो

फ़र्ज़ करो ये जोग बिजोग का हमने ढोंग रचाया हो फ़र्ज़ करो बस यही हक़ीक़त बाक़ी सब कुछ माया हो

इति

Rasa: Shringara
Stanzas: 5
Lines: 10
Reading time: ~1 min
Form: Ghazal
Metre: ghazal
Rhyme: AA BB CC DD EE

The poem inhabits a fluid, hypnotic atmosphere of romantic uncertainty, oscillating between heartfelt devotion and the cynical realization that love may be a meticulously constructed performance. A painting of this scene would depict a solitary figure sitting in a dimly lit, bohemian space, perhaps surrounded by scattered scrolls or an unlit ascetic’s hearth, staring into an empty wine glass that reflects a distorted, illusory world. The imagery juxtaposes the physical weight of longing—the heavy breath and the weary eyes—against a backdrop of shifting veils and theater-like artifice, suggesting that the persona is simultaneously the lover, the ascetic, and the skeptical observer of his own artifice. Ultimately, the work conveys a sophisticated, bittersweet tone where the boundary between sincere emotional agony and the grand "maya" of a self-invented tragedy dissolves, leaving the viewer to contemplate whether love is a divine realization or merely a beautiful, necessary deception.

फ़र्ज़ करो (Farz Karo), by Ibn-e-Insha runs to 10 lines across 5 stanzas, set as Five couplets. Its governing rasa is Shringara, shaded by Hasya. The metre is ghazal. Rhyme falls as AA BB CC DD EE.

A playful yet deep ghazal questioning the authenticity of romantic suffering and spiritual renunciation.

Read it for प्रेम और विरह का खेल and सत्य और भ्रम का द्वंद्व. 3 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Damayanti and Her Maidservant: The painting evokes a mood of quiet melancholy and tender vulnerability, capturing the sweet, agonizing throes of romantic longing beneath a fading twilight sky. Set upon a marble balcony, the luminous princess…

Words worth pausing on

बिपता: विपत्ति या दुःख
मयख़ाने: मदिरालय
बिजोग: वियोग

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Imagination Love Illusion

The Poet

इब्ने इंशा

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.