Ragon mei daudte phirne | Mirza Ghalib Poetry Poster for home | Unqiue urdu wall Art | Pakistani Art | Indian Poet

Mirza Ghalib's poetry collage artwork

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Urdu:
رگوں میں دوڑتے پھرنے کے ہم نہیں قائل
جب آنکھ ہی سے نہ ٹپکا تو پھر لہو کیا ہے

Hindi:
रगों में दौड़ते फिरने के हम नहीं क़ाइल
जब आँख ही से न टपका तो फिर लहू क्या है


Roman Urdu:
Ragon mein daudte phirne ke hum nahin qail
jab aankh hi se na tapka to phir lahu kya hai

English:
The poet says I am not impressed by it running about in the veins. If it does not drip from the eyes, what kind of blood is this. What good is the lover's blood whose sole purpose is to run around in the veins and it can't drip from the eyes of the lover. What good will that blood (running on veins) be if it continues to make him live and suffer (the agony of love). It should instead drip out endlessly through his eyes, and end this misery(life) of his.
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Frames are not included.
Printed using a professional printer on 230 gsm high-quality paper

Size conversion guide for our standard A sizes:
A6 - 14.8cm x 10.5cm (5.8 x 4.1 Inches)
A5 - 21cm x 14.8cm (8.27 x 5.83 Inches)
A4 - 29.7cm x 21cm (11.69 x 8.27 Inches)
A3 - 42cm x 29.7cm (16.53 x 11.69 Inches)
A2 - 59.4cm x 42cm (23.39 x 16.53 Inches)


Please note: Colours may vary slightly from those shown on the screen when printed.

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Who was Ghalib?
Ghalib is the poetical surname of Asadullah Khan, the greatest poet of Urdu. He is the last of the great Delhi poets, and is the first of the great modern poets. He stands between two worlds. Trained in classical Persian and mystic philosophy, he also profited from the western influences and the spirit of Indian Renaissance. “He employed ‘heterogeneous ideas’ and ‘yoked them together with voilence’ like the English Metaphysical poets. He towers above the hundreds and hundreds of Urdu poets like a ‘victor’ (Ghalib), as his pseudonym means.

Ghalib’s was a life of uninterrupted affliction, suffering and grief except for a brief period in his early youth. He came of a family of distinguished Seljuqid Turks, and his ancestors occupied important positions in the armies of the Mughals and of the East India Company. He was born in Agra in 1797. His father Abdullah Beg Khan was killed in action when Ghalib was less than five years old. After his father’s death, he was taken care of by his uncle Nasullah Beg Khan, but when Ghalib was nine he, too, died. Ghalib henceforth lived with the rich parents of his mother whose indulgence towards him resulted in his developing unfrugal habits and plunging towards youthful excesses, which in later years were responsible for many of his troubles. He did not receive any systematic education, learning all he knew mainly by personal effort and extraordinary intelligence. At the age of thirteen, he was married to a respectable family of Delhi and in 1812 moved to Delhi permanently.