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kyaa kyaa mardum ;xvush :zaahir hai;N ((aalam-e ;husn me;N naam-e ;xudaa
((aalam-e ((ishq ;xaraabah hai vaa;N ko))ii ghar aabaad nahii;N
1) what-all [kinds of] people are seemingly/evidently/outwardly happy-appearing in the world of beauty, in the Lord's name!
2) the world of passion is a desolation/ruin; there no house is inhabited
mardum : 'A man; men, people; —a polite or civilized man; —pupil (of the eye); —adj. Civil, humane'. (Platts p.1022)
;xvush : 'Good; excellent; healthy, wholesome; flourishing, prosperous, well;—sweet, delicious; delightful, agreeable, acceptable; pleasing, pleasant; beautiful, fair, charming, elegant; amiable, affable, cheerful, glad, happy, pleased, delighted, merry, gay; content, willing'. (Platts p.496)
:zaahir : 'Outward, exterior, external, extrinsic, exoteric; appearing, apparent, overt, open, perceptible, visible, perceived, plain, evident, manifest, conspicuous, ostensible'. (Platts p.755)
FWP:
SETS == GENERATORS
MOTIFS == HERE/THERE; HOME
NAMES
TERMSThere's also the word mardum , with its overtones of urbanity ('a polite or civilized man') that are so perfectly suited to the lavish ambiguities of the world of beauty. The complex, often opposite effects of :zaahir are equally effective in that first line: it can mean either clear and real ('plain, evident, manifest'), or superficial ('outward, exterior, external'), or even faked ('apparent, ostensible'); see the definition above.
Fortunately, we can capture some of the same complexities in English with 'apparent' ('it's apparent that the coup has failed', versus 'the coup's failure is only apparent'). The world of beauty has all the subtlety, sophistication, hypocrisy; the world of passion has only its own desolateness.