Az Ghumat Aye Nazanin

Az Ghumat Aye Nazanin — From Your Grief, O Darling — takes a structure common in the departure-from-love ghazal: the announcement of departure, the terms of that departure, and the strange persistence of attachment even in the act of leaving. 'I resolve to travel' is not the same as having already left; the resolution is declared at the start and the speaker is still here, still describing what will happen when they go.

The qibla — the direction of Mecca, the orientation of Islamic prayer — is used here as a metaphor for the direction of longing. 'After this I turn my qibla toward another direction' is: I will now desire something else, orient my life away from you. But the qibla metaphor cuts both ways — to change the qibla is a serious reorientation, the equivalent of remaking one's entire system of direction. The speaker is proposing to do this casually, which is itself a form of bravado.

The final threat — 'So that no one else is deceived by you again / I will raise a clamor everywhere about your grief' — is the most socially oriented gesture in the poem. The speaker's personal loss becomes a public warning, a protective act for future victims of the same beauty. 'The story of your oppression, O unfamiliar idol / With a grieving heart and weeping eye I will tell' — the witness testimony will be delivered with visible grief, which makes it simultaneously an accusation and a declaration of how much the speaker still cares.