"Tere bin raatein badi lambi lagti hain" — Love Shayari
Original Hindi / Urdu Verse
तेरे बिन रातें बड़ी लम्बी लगती हैं,
सितारे भी अब मातम मनाते हैं।
चाँद निकलता है तो याद आती है तेरी,
कि तू भी कभी यूँही रोशन हो जाता था।
English Pronunciation / Transliteration
Tere bin raatein badi lambi lagti hain,
Sitaare bhi ab maatam manaate hain.
Chaand niklata hai to yaad aati hai teri,
Ki tu bhi kabhi yun hi roshan ho jaata tha.
Literary Meaning & Emotional Context
A nocturnal elegy where the night sky becomes an emotional landscape mirroring the poet's grief. The anthropomorphization of stars as mourners elevates personal loss to a cosmic scale, a device common in classical Urdu nazm. The comparison of the beloved to the moon — 'you too would illuminate just like this' — is particularly layered: it implies the beloved's brightness was as natural and effortless as celestial light. The past tense 'ho jaata tha' (used to become bright) crystallizes the finality of loss with quiet devastation.