sherKuch Alfaaz
ghham agarche jan-gusil hai pa kahan bachen ki dil hai ghham-e-ishq gar na hota ghham-e-rozgar hota if sorrow's fatal, then tell me, how can this heart endure? if love's sorrow would not be, life's sorrow would, for sure ghalib says sorrow is unavoidable because having a heart means being vulnerable to pain. he contrasts two kinds of grief: the exalted, consuming grief of love and the mundane anxieties of daily life. love’s pain, though severe, gives suffering a meaning, while without it one would merely be worn down by worldly troubles. the couplet turns inevitability into a choice of what kind of sorrow one would rather bear.
