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raato;N paas gale lag so))e nange ho kar hai yih ((ajab
din ko be-pardah nahii;N milte ham se sharmaate hai;N hanuuz
1) in all the nights, lying beside us she slept, having become naked; the strange thing is this:
2) by day, she doesn't meet us unveiled; she is ashamed/abashed before us now/still
FWP:
SETS == HANUZ
MOTIFS == BELOVED IS NOT GOD; CLOTHING/NAKEDNESS; EROTIC SUGGESTION; VEIL
NAMES
TERMS == THEMEThis verse is also a lovely illustration of the value of hanuuz . Is she ashamed before us 'still'? (We would have expected her to get over her shyness now that our intimacy is so advanced.) Or is she ashamed before us 'now'? (Perhaps she is only now so shy, shamefaced, abashed-- because now our intimacy is so advanced.) Both possibilities are piquant, and the verse doesn't give us any grounds for preferring either over the other.
Of course, this has to be a verse in which the beloved is not imagined to be God; and in fact she seems clearly to be a woman.