dil ek mandir hai

jaane waale kabhii nahiiN aate
jaane waale kii yaad aatii hai.

Thus starts the title song of "Dil Ek Mandir' by Hasrat Jaipuri. The couplet above was written by Sikandar Ali Wajd.

phir tumhaarii yaad aa_ii, ai sanam

Hakim Momin Khan 'Momin' has created a timeless classic of a Ghazal which goes like this:

asar usko zara naheeN hotaa
ranj raahat.fazaa naheeN hotaa
... ... ...
... ... ...
haal-e-dil yaar ko likhooN kyoN.kar
haath dil se judaa naheeN hotaa

kyoN.kar means 'how', 'in what manner', etc. In other words, kaise. Qamar Jalalabadi, writing what I consider to be The Finest multi-singer song ever composed for a Hindi film, used this sh'er almost as-is, but for the trivial changing of kyoN.kar to kaise. Look for the couplet in this superlative Sajjad Hussain song from Rustom Sohrab (1963) sung by Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey aur saathi --



Note that this 'Momin' Ghazal is the same one which contains the following incredibly beautiful couplet which 'Ghalib' reportedly said he would be willing to exchange his entire deewaan for.

tum mere paas hote ho goya
jab koi doosra naheeN hotaa

Regular readers of this blog will recall that we have covered this song previously in another post.

bhuule se muhabbat kar baiThaa

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib wrote

dil hii to hai na sa.ng-o-Kisht dard se bhar na aa_e kyu.n
ro_e.nge ham hazaar baar ko_ii hame.n sataa_e kyu.n

Sahir Ludhiyanvi turned the first part of the misra into a song of the same name Dil Hi To Hai (1963)
bhuule se muhabbat kar baiThaa naadaa.n thaa bechaaraa dil hii to hai
har dil se Kataa ho jaatii hai bigaRo na Kudaaraa dil hii to hai