;hasrat-e ((ar.z-e tamannaa yaa;N se samjhaa chaahiye
do-jahaa;N ;hashr-e zabaan-e ;xushk hai;N juu;N shaanah ham
1) the longing/grief of the presentation/breadth of longing/desire ought to be understood from here/this:
2) we are, like a comb, a 'two-worlds' Doomsday of a dry/parched tongue
;hasrat : 'Grief, regret, intense grief or sorrow;—longing, desire'. (Platts p.477)
((ar.z : 'Presenting or representing; representation, petition, request, address; ...—Breadth, width'. (Platts p.760)
tamannaa : 'Wish, desire, longing, inclination ... , reqnest, prayer, supplication, petition'. (Platts p.377)
;hashr : 'Gathering, meeting, congregation, concourse; the resurrection; —commotion, tumult, noise (such as that of the resurrection); wailing, lamentation'. (Platts p.478)
shaanah : 'A comb; a (cock's) comb, a crest...; the shoulder-blade'. (Platts p.719)
Raza p. 233. S. R. Faruqi's choices. This verse is from a different, unpublished, ham-:tar;h ghazal from 1821, and is included for comparison. This was the second verse of the unpublished ghazal.
The phrase do-jahaa;N is one of a group of yak and do constructions that emphasize sweepingness and magnitude; for discussion, see {11,1}. A 'two-worlds Doomsday' works well as an image, because Doomsday will be the end of both worlds (and more, if there are any more).
A comb has many teeth, or 'tongues', but they're all dry and stiff and immobile, so even in their desperate, urgent, jammed-together numerousness they're useless for speaking. All they're good for is conveying an impression of how passionately we long to speak, and how radically we're unable to do so.
The wordplay is also enjoyable: ((ar.z is a word with both verbal ('petition, plea') and spatial ('breadth, width') meanings. The former sense is picked up by tamannaa ('prayer, petition'), and the latter sense by yaa;N se (literally, 'from here').
Gyan Chand:
We want to present our petition in the presence of the beloved. The extent of this longing can be guessed from the fact that our tongue is dry like a comb; that is, this condition resulted from not being able to speak, and because of not being able to speak there's great restlessness. A comb has many 'tongues', but dry ones-- that is, they too writhe with the longing to speak. (254)