Sunday, April 21, 2024

On being together – Shayaari

 


On being together – Shayaari




Tum mere paas hote ho goya

Jab koi doosra nahin hota……..Momin


 तुम मेरे पास होते हो गोया

जब कोई दूसरा नहीं होता।  


It is as if, you are there with me

When no other person is!

OR

You are there with me when I am all alone and there is no one around!

 

Wow! What a pregnant lyrical simple and yet complete couplet!

Either we are with someone or with no one….but here the poet says both with the use of a rare word “goya” meaning “as if or when”. He says he is alone. And yet in his solitude, if finds his lover present. To say that he is alone and in solitude, he describes it as ‘when no other person is there with me’. Wow! Such beauty!

No doubt, Mirza Ghalib said he can exchange his entire Diwan (collection of his entire poems) with just this couplet of Momin’s.

The beauty of this couplet like many in Urdu shayaari is that the lover can be treated as both human and the Almighty!

And apply this to the Lord God, how right it fits there too!

 

Meanings :

Goya – as if, when

Doosra – the other


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