O GHALIB!!!!

Your views on mysticism are quite unique, O Ghalib,

A saint most likely had you not been drunk so often.

Even a verse or two by you has wisdom

Ah, that you had not sipped the wine so often!

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Translation of a couplet by Ghalib along with a couplet of my own. Readers would do well to bear in mind that in Persian, Arabic and Urdu literature the poets often use their own name, defined as "Takhallus" (non de plume/pen name) in most of their poems.

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Ghalib was a great poet not only due to his unique views on mysticism but also with his broad-based philosophy he had deep got insight into the human psychology. And as far as his imaginative powers are concerned, he was simply matchless. In the words of Iqbal:

Fikr-i-Insan par tiri hasti sey yeh roshan hua
Hey par-i-murgh-i-takhayyul ki rasaaii ta kuja