FWP:
SETS == INEXPRESSIBILITY
SOUND EFFECTS: {26,7}
WRITING: {7,3}
For background see S. R. Faruqi's choices.
The remarkable versatility of the i.zaafat phrase ;xaa:tir-e aa;Gaaz guarantees that the verse will remain open-ended. For the meaning of ;xaa:tir can be anything from 'thought, memory', through 'mind, heart', through 'affection, regard', to 'pleasure, satisfaction' or 'will, choice'. Then the i.zaafat makes it impossible to be sure whether this 'X of the beginning' is, say, an X that is 'about' the beginning, or an X that occurs 'during' the beginning', or an X that itself 'is' the beginning.
Of course there's the wordplay: the 'head-written', the 'throat'; then the 'stalk' and the 'thorn'; then the 'conclusion' versus the 'beginning'.
But even more enjoyable is the emphatically audible set of initial ;xe sounds: ;xaamah ;xaar-;xaar-e ;xaa:tir , counterpointed by the voiced counterpart, the ;Gain in aa;Gaaz . A wonderful evocation of a rough, agitated, scratchy 'throat', the kind that would be created by the scraping of a thorn.
Gyan Chand:
;xaar-;xaar is the doubt and anxiety over the fulfillment of some longing. The fate or 'head-written' of intimacy is being written. The vein of the pen that is writing the fate is, for the heart at the beginning of passion, a thorn of anxiety-- that is, in the very commencement of passion a pricking thing has come into the heart. For this reason, how much agitation has been written into the fate for the conclusion of intimacy-- don't ask. If the beginning is with anxiety and doubt, then the end ought to be complete agitation.... To present in the neck/throat of the reed-pen a thorn, is 'delicacy of thought'. (362)