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Ghalib, his Ghazals, his poems, his genius, and his wits have always fascinated millions of Urdu lovers including myself. Those who want to read my previous work please Ctrl + click or copy and paste in internet address window, the following link:       http://mirza-ghalib.org/ghalib_series.html or, if you choose, you may send me an email request; I will email back my previous explanations just for asking. 

This is my 34^th installment.  I have received excellent response from lot of friends; both Urdu and non-Urdu speakers. Please know that this is my own, Asghar Vasanwala’s, work and not a forwarding of someone else’s work as some you thought. Please forward this to your friends. Also please send me your comments/complements. I will appreciate if you forward me emails of your  Urdu/non-Urdu friends.                                                                                                                                                            Here is today’s verse (she'r) & its explanation in Urdu, Gujarati, and English

Kiya   aaina  khane  ka  voh   naqsha,   tere   jalve   ne        Your dazzling body taught the same stunning lesson to (proud) mirror-house    Kare jo partow-e-khursheed, aalm shabnamistaN ka          What sunshine teaches to (proud) morning dew                    aaina=mirror   aaina khana=mirror house       naqsha=map, condition      jalva=dazzle      par-tow= shadow    khursheed=sun   partow-e-khursheed=shadow of sun meaning sun     aalam=world, condition      shabnamistaN= place where morning dew resides, flower and greenery.

This is the 5^th verse of Ghalib’s 10^th ghazal.  The fourth verse is little complicated and I have not included.

Meaning: In this verse Ghalib describes the heat and light show that happened at the arrival of his diva into a mirror house. He likens his diva’s arrival to a rising of sun. Before sun rise, morning dew resides on flower and greenery in a way as if pride has gone into its head. However, the arrival of sun shatters morning-dew’s pride and kicks it out from flowers and greeneries; converts it into thin air. Similarly, before arrival of Ghalib’s dazzling beloved, the glass house was proud of its shine. But when Ghalib’s damsel arrived into this mirror house, the mirror house couldn’t face the dazzle of her beauty. Not only did mirror-house’s pride  got shattered, but itself got dissolved into thin air; just as what happens to morning dew.

Finer aspects of this verse: In this verse the use of word “naqsha” is unique. “Kiya aaina khane ka voh naqsha tere jalve ne” meaning dazzle of your beauty taught a stunning lesson to (proud) mirror-house, the same way the sunshine teaches to (proud) morning dew. In both verses Ghalib has used two different words “naqsha” and “aalam” for condition or state. Ghalib never uses the same word twice, in a single verse.