Khwaja Mir Dard

Khwaja Mir Dard (1720- 6 January 1785) (Urdu: خواجہ میر درد‎) was a poet of the Delhi School. He was a Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddadi religious order. Quotes Poetry Did you ever surfeit a drinker to this heart?Bring to my lips, Saqi, lips of the purple flask.Scent-like, it cannot lie concealed behind the veil,The beauty which has tasted the delight of being unveiled.Brief is our span of life, fleeter than the lightning flash,Fated are we to finish in haste each assigned task.Whosoever I approach to unfold my heart,Comes forth at once with his own tale of woe.You haven't seen, O Dard, the world's destructive might,Flask-like it mingles in dust each drinker's blood. Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal from the 17th to the 20th Century, p. 45 دوستو، دیکها تماشا یہاں کا بستم رہو خوش ہم تو اپنے گھر چلے۔ translation: My friends, we have seen enough of this play.We are going home, you can stay. Ilm Ul Kitab, p. 476 جگ میں کوئی نہ ٹک ہنسا ہوگاکہ نہ ہنسنے میں رو دِیا ہوگا translation: No one in the world has (ever) laughed,the least bit without weeping at the same time. A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody: Couplet no. 297, p. 299 External links Ilm Ul Kitab (in Urdu), Delhi, 1890 A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody, Wiesbaden, 1982 K. C. Kanda: Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal from the 17th to the 20th Century, New Delhi, 2007 Category:1720 births Category:1785 deaths Category:Muslims from India Category:Saints Category:Persian literature Category:Urdu literature Category:Urdu-language writers Category:Poets from India Category:Urdu-language poets Category:People from Delhi