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Muslim / Sufi

19th Century

About Mirza Ghalib

Timeline (1797 - 1869)

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English version by
Riaz Ahmad

Original Language
Urdu

The Rose with its redolent petals

Themes

Death

Lotus

Rose

Sexual Union

Spring Blossom

Recommended Books

	East Window: Poems from Asia, Translated by W. S. Merwin
	The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
	Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib, by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib / Translated by Robert Bly
	Mirza Ghalib: A Creative Biography, by Natalia Il'inichna Prigarina
	The Oxford India Ghalib: Life, Letters and Ghazals, by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib / Edited by Ralph Russel

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The Rose with its redolent petals
The Water lily with its robe of virgin white
These have surely come to us in transmigration
Of but a few of those
Endowed with sublime beauty and grace.
Some embrace death to sprout again
But most, forever, in dust remain.

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