qaid-e-hayat-o-band-e-gham asl mein dono ek hain, maut se pehle aadmi gham se nijaat paaye kyun

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Mirza Ghalib
Source
— Divan-e-Ghalib, from the ghazal "koi din gar zindagani aur hai"
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Ghalib shayari · life · shayari · sorrow

— Divan-e-Ghalib, from the ghazal "koi din gar zindagani aur hai"

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देवनागरी:
क़ैद-ए-हयात-ओ-बंद-ए-ग़म अस्ल में दोनों एक हैं
मौत से पहले आदमी ग़म से निजात पाए क्यों

English: The prison of life and the chains of sorrow are one and the same — why should a man be free of grief before death?

Meaning: Life and sorrow are not two things, says Ghalib — to be alive is to be bound. There is a hard consolation in it: grief is not a malfunction of living but its definition, so stop expecting its end.

अर्थ: ज़िंदगी की क़ैद और ग़म की ज़ंजीर एक ही चीज़ है — जब तक जीवन है, ग़म रहेगा। ग़म को ज़िंदगी की शर्त मान लेना ही ग़ालिब की तसल्ली है।

An authentic couplet from the Divan-e-Ghalib, the collected Urdu ghazals of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797–1869), from the ghazal beginning “koi din gar zindagani aur hai”. Transliteration and English rendering are our own.