sarakti jaaye hai rukh se naqab aahista aahista, nikalta aa raha hai aaftab aahista aahista

Download Pin WhatsApp Random
Who said it
Ameer Minai
Source
from the ghazal beginning “sarakti jaaye hai rukh se naqab aahista aahista”, Ameer Minai (1829–1900)
Topics
Ameer Minai · love · misattributed quotes · poetry

— from the ghazal beginning “sarakti jaaye hai rukh se naqab aahista aahista”, Ameer Minai (1829–1900)

About this quote

देवनागरी

सरकती जाए है रुख़ से नक़ाब आहिस्ता आहिस्ता
निकलता आ रहा है आफ़ताब आहिस्ता आहिस्ता

اردو

سرکتی جائے ہے رخ سے نقاب آہستہ آہستہ
نکلتا آ رہا ہے آفتاب آہستہ آہستہ

English

The veil slips from her face, slowly, slowly — as the sun comes out, slowly, slowly.

What it means

One of the most misattributed couplets in Urdu: it is routinely posted as Ghalib’s, and it is not. It belongs to Ameer Minai, Ghalib’s younger contemporary, and is verifiable in his collected ghazals. If you want the longer version of this problem, see our list of shayari wrongly credited to Ghalib.

What it teaches you

The practical lesson here is about how you share couplets, not what this one means. When you post or forward it, put Ameer Minai’s name on it — the misattribution survives because each reposted image copies the caption above it rather than a printed divan. Treat any Urdu couplet you meet with a famous name attached, especially Ghalib’s, as unverified until you have seen it in that poet’s collected work; famous names absorb orphan lines. A one-line check before you hit send is the whole of the discipline.

अर्थ और सीख

यह शेर आए दिन ग़ालिब के नाम से शेयर होता है — है अमीर मीनाई का। ग़ालिब के नाम से चलने वाली शायरी की पूरी फ़ेहरिस्त यहाँ देखें।

इस शेर को साझा करते समय अमीर मीनाई का नाम ज़रूर लिखें, ग़ालिब का नहीं। जो शेर किसी मशहूर नाम के साथ मिले, उसे तब तक अनदेखा मानें जब तक वह उस शायर के दीवान में न देख लें।

Where it comes from

Verified against the collected work of Ameer Minai (1829–1900) on Urdu Wikisource, in the poem beginning سرکتی جائے ہے رخ سے نقاب آہستہ آہستہ (source). Devanagari transliteration and English rendering are our own.