Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Couplet 179-181


پردہ بردار و برہنہ گو کہ من
Lift the veil and tell without veil, as I



می نگنجم با صنم در پیرہن

Cannot be remained in robe with beloved

گفتم ار عریاں  شود اُو درعیاں
I said ‘if He is unveiled before eyes



نے تو مانی نے کنارہ نے میاں

Neither you be there, nor the shore & expanse

آرزو می خواہ لیک اندازہ خواہ
Do ask, but ask according to your forbearance


بر نتابد کوہ را یک برگِ کاہ

A piece of grass cannot bear a mountain

پیرین is a veil and if someone sleeps with his/her beloved with a shirt on, then there is veil between the two. The simile here is that  the rooh is saying that I do not like this veil of stories and examples for explaining this fact, therefore do tell clearly and openly.

عریاں ہونا is the disclosure of that secret i.e. it is sais that the disclosure of these secrets would destroy and desolate the whole world, which was narrated in detail in the proem (Book1/ Couplet 35)
سر پنہاں ست اندر زیر و بم

بر نتابد means don’t be able to bear. Answering to rooh, it is said that do not ask for anything more than what you can bear as the existence of this world would be jeopardized. Thus it is better to keep quiet.

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