{"id":10917,"date":"2022-10-16T21:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:28:41","slug":"faces-hidden-in-the-dust-by-galib-two-ghazals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/faces-hidden-in-the-dust-by-galib-two-ghazals\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Faces Hidden in the Dust by Ghalib<\/em>\u2014Two Ghazals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10919\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faces-Hidden-Dust-Selected-Ghazals\/dp\/1945680504\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1A645U3AOURLE&amp;keywords=faces+hidden+in+the+dust&amp;qid=1644441482&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=faces+hidden+in+the+dust%2Cstripbooks%2C99&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10919 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mirza-Asadullah-Beg-Khan-aka-Ghalib-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mirza-Asadullah-Beg-Khan-aka-Ghalib-banner.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mirza-Asadullah-Beg-Khan-aka-Ghalib-banner-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mirza-Asadullah-Beg-Khan-aka-Ghalib-banner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mirza-Asadullah-Beg-Khan-aka-Ghalib-banner-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mirza-Asadullah-Beg-Khan-aka-Ghalib-banner-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Faces Hidden in the Dust, The Selected Ghazals of Ghalib<\/em> is published by White Pine Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4><em>Faces Hidden in the Dust<\/em> by Ghalib<\/h4>\n<p>Translated from the Urdu by Tony Barnstone and Bilal Shaw<\/p>\n<p>Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (1797-1869), known by his pen names Asad (&#8220;lion&#8221;) and Ghalib (&#8220;superior&#8221;), is the famous romantic and mystical poet of the Mughal Empire (1526-1858) in India. He is the most-beloved and most widely read poet of the Urdu language, the dominant language of northern India and Pakistan that emerged through the blending of Hindustani with Arabic and Persian. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faces-Hidden-Dust-Selected-Ghazals\/dp\/1945680504\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1A645U3AOURLE&amp;keywords=faces+hidden+in+the+dust&amp;qid=1644441482&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=faces+hidden+in+the+dust%2Cstripbooks%2C99&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Order here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-vimeo ose-uid-9d33ee18418fc8b939291f3653936829 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Bilal Shaw &amp; Tony Barnstone on the Selected Ghazals of Ghalib\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/760740942?dnt=0&amp;app_id=122963&title=0&color=00ADEF&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0&loop=0&autopause=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><strong>The Hidden Flame<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The hidden flame is cruel.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 My heart\u2019s burning.<br \/>\nA whispering ember,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 the hurt\u2019s burning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">No hunger for her memory<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 eats at my heart.<br \/>\nThere is a firestorm in my house;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 every part\u2019s burning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">I am beyond nonbeing<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0and my sighs are hot enough<br \/>\nto make a Phoenix\u2019s wings<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 start burning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">How do I show the flaming gem<br \/>\n\u00a0of my thoughts?<br \/>\nA wild thought kindled in me<br \/>\n\u00a0and set the desert burning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">I have no heart<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0or I\u2019d show you my flower wounds.<br \/>\nHow can I put on a fireworks show<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 when my shirt\u2019s burning?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Ghalib, it\u2019s come down to me<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0and a thirst for ice, for my heart<br \/>\ntook people\u2019s false warmth to heart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 and started burning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>(Ghazal 5)<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><strong>Nothing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/strong>Before being there was God.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 If nothing were, God still would be.<br \/>\nBeing drowns me.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 What matter if I have no being?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Brain-numbed from grief,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m decapitated, yet I feel nothing.<br \/>\nI will rest my head on my knees,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 if it is still attached to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">It has been eons since Ghalib died.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 But it is remembered<br \/>\nhow he asked,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWhat would have been if it had been?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>(Ghazal 32)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Barnstone and Bilal Shaw present their book of Ghabib ghazals, translated from the 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