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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFor you gave me an immense capacity to bear love’s ecstasy Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal king, was also a poet. Though his literary standing was not as high as that of his Ustad (Mohd. Ibhrahim Zauk) and contemporaries, Ghalib and Momin, his writings are highly respected and appreciated. Zafar was a king (though in the British Raj, his kingdom did not extend beyond the Red Fort) and a freedom fighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This ghazal is one of his finest works, especially when read in the context of India\u2019s freedom struggle and a helpless (and impotent when it came to doing anything for his country and men) king\u2019s sentiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u0646\u0634\u06c2 \u0639\u0634\u0642 \u06a9\u0627 \u06af\u0631 \u0638\u0631\u0641 \u062f\u06cc\u0627 \u062a\u06be\u0627 \u0645\u062c\u06be \u06a9\u0648\u0639\u0645\u0631 \u06a9\u0627 \u062a\u0646\u06af \u0646\u06c1 \u067e\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646\u06c1 \u0628\u0646\u0627\u06cc\u0627 \u06c1\u0648\u062a\u0627\u0628\u06c1\u0627\u062f\u0631 \u0634\u0627\u06c1 \u0638\u0641\u0631 – nashsha-e-ishq ka gar zarf diya tha mujh koumr ka tang na paimanaa banayaa hota– Bahadur Shah Zafar \u0928\u0936\u094d\u0936\u093e-\u090f-\u0907\u0936\u094d\u0915 \u0915\u093e \u0917\u0930 \u091c\u093c\u0930\u094d\u092b \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0925\u093e \u092e\u0941\u091d \u0915\u094b\u0909\u092e\u094d\u0930 \u0915\u093e \u0924\u0902\u0917 \u0928 \u092a\u0948\u092e\u093e\u0928\u093e \u092c\u0928\u093e\u092f\u093e \u0939\u094b\u0924\u093e– \u092c\u0939\u093e\u0926\u0941\u0930 \u0936\u093e\u0939 \u091c\u093c\u092b\u093c\u0930 Photo by Simon … Continue reading Nasha-e-ishq ka gar zarf diya tha mujhko<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[830,828,826,833,832,3680,834,827,829,831],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asad","tag-paimana","tag-tang","tag-zarf","tag-833","tag-832","tag-3680","tag-834","tag-827","tag-829","tag-831"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/simon-fanger-wP8wYMZDco0-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ULcA-j7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14293,"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/14293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/asad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
you should not have made my life so bound by transiency<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n