FWP:
SETS
INDEPENDENCE: {9,1}
JAUHAR: {5,4}
For background see S. R. Faruqi's choices. This verse is NOT one of his choices; I thought it was interesting and have added it myself. For more on Ghalib's unpublished verses, see the discussion in {4,8x}.
The stamen is the part of the flower that produces pollen; in roses, the stamen and pollen are often gold in color, so that the pollen would resemble gold-dust. And gold dust in turn could perhaps be thought to resemble the temper-lines on steel-- as, for example, the polish-lines on a tempered sword (see {88,6x} for a close look).
Of course, the resemblances between pollen and gold-dust, and gold-dust and temper-lines, are not very close. But if we take the metaphor a bit more abstractly, it becomes chilling: when rich people give you gold, it's really like reminding you that they also potentially hold a sword over your head. It's soft power very subtly (and thus all the more menacingly) evoking hard power.
This verse belongs to a group that I call 'independence' verses; for discussion and examples, see {9,1}.
Zamin:
He says that not to speak of gold, to take the beneficence of wealth-possessors is so unacceptable that even/also from the 'gold of the rose' we flee the way one would flee from the jauhar of steel-- that is, tempered steel, a means of wounding. In reality the 'gold of the rose' has no wealth but is only for its verbal similitude; its nearness too is unpleasing.
== Zamin, p. 239