FWP:
SETS == WORDPLAY
For extensive commentary on this whole very unusual ghazal, see {139,1}.
Other than the wordplay noted above, I can't find anything
else going on in this verse.
tere dil me;N gar nah thaa aashob-e
;Gam kaa ;hau.slah
tuu ne phir kyuu;N kii thii merii ;Gam-gusaarii haa))e haa))e
1) if in your heart there was not the courage/'stomach'
for the devastation of grief
2) then why did you assuage/'drink' my grief-- alas!
;hau.slah : 'Stomach, maw; crop, craw; (fig.) capacity; desire, ambition; resolution; spirit, courage'. (Platts p.482)
gusaar : 'Taking away, removing, dissipating, assuaging; drinking, swallowing'. (Platts p.910)
He says, if in your heart there wasn't the endurance for the harshnesses of grief, then why did you claim to be my consoler? That is, you shouldn't have met with me and remained my friend/intimate like this. (205)
The 'alas' tells us that now the beloved's state is so sorrowful that the lover wishes that she had not been kind to him. (271)
Nazm:
That is, if only you had remained unfamiliar/unintimate with me, then it would have been better. (149)
== Nazm page 149