WORD OF THE DAY
naqqaash
- नक़्क़ाश
- نقاش
means
a painter, drawer, limner, draughtsman, designer, embroiderer,
ham na kahte the ki naqsh us kā nahīñ naqqāsh sahl
chāñd saarā lag gayā tab nīm-ruḳh sūrat huī
Interpretation:
Rekhta AI
Meer Taqi Meer presents the beloved’s beauty as so perfect that ordinary skill cannot capture it. The “engraver/artist” is a metaphor for any attempt to portray her—poetry, painting, or imagination. The hyperbole of spending the entire moon yet achieving only a partial profile shows the failure of representation before overwhelming beauty. The tone is admiring, awed, and slightly triumphant: “we told you so.”
hum na kahte the ki naqsh us ka nahin naqqash sahl
chand sara lag gaya tab nim-ruKH surat hui
Interpretation:
Rekhta AI
Meer Taqi Meer presents the beloved’s beauty as so perfect that ordinary skill cannot capture it. The “engraver/artist” is a metaphor for any attempt to portray her—poetry, painting, or imagination. The hyperbole of spending the entire moon yet achieving only a partial profile shows the failure of representation before overwhelming beauty. The tone is admiring, awed, and slightly triumphant: “we told you so.”
from the Ghazal "ishq mein zillat hui KHiffat hui tohmat hui" by Meer Taqi Meer
