— Divan-e-Ghalib, from the ghazal "dil-e-nadaan tujhe hua kya hai"
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देवनागरी:
दिल-ए-नादाँ तुझे हुआ क्या है
आख़िर इस दर्द की दवा क्या है
English: O foolish heart, what has happened to you? What, after all, is the cure for this pain?
Meaning: The simplest lines Ghalib ever wrote, and among his most beloved. The poet interrogates his own heart like a worried friend — knowing well that for this particular illness, no pharmacy stocks the cure.
अर्थ: ग़ालिब अपने ही दिल से पूछते हैं — तुझे हुआ क्या है, और इस दर्द का इलाज क्या है? सवाल में ही जवाब छिपा है: इश्क़ का कोई इलाज नहीं।
An authentic couplet from the Divan-e-Ghalib, the collected Urdu ghazals of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797–1869), from the ghazal beginning “dil-e-nadaan tujhe hua kya hai”. Transliteration and English rendering are our own.
