POEM · PERMANENT EDITION

Mir Taqi Mir تاچند تلف میرؔ حیا سے ہوگا Ta-chand talaf Mir haya se hoga ●sher 1 of 2

تاچند تلف میرؔ حیا سے ہوگا

Ta-chand talaf Mir haya se hoga

شائستۂ صدستم وفا سے ہوگا

Shayista-e sad-sitam wafa se hoga

How long, Mir, will you be wasted by modesty?
Faithfulness will endure a hundred hardships.

کر ترک ملاقات بتاں کعبے چل

Kar tark mulaqat butaan Kaabe chal

ان سے ہوگا سو اب خدا سے ہوگا

Un se hoga so ab Khuda se hoga

Abandon meeting the idols, go to Kaaba.
What was to be from them, now will be from God.

Context

This couplet, attributed to Mir Taqi Mir, embodies a profound shift from the worldly to the divine, a common theme in classical Urdu poetry, especially ghazals with Sufi undertones. The poet expresses a weariness with the unfulfilled promises and suffering inherent in human attachments ("بتاں" - idols or beloveds), deciding to abandon them and seek refuge and ultimate destiny in God, symbolized by the pilgrimage to the Kaaba. It reflects a journey from metaphorical love to a yearning for the absolute, where all future occurrences are now entrusted solely to the divine.