My love for metaphors!

Metaphors are absolutely handsome. If given a chance and slightly heavier brains, I’d rather express in metaphors than talk like an android.

 Metaphors express so explicitly and beautifully, what we feel. They are like a verbal statue carved with utmost perfection and studded with the choosiest and the rarest of jewels, painted with deepest of colors ever present on mother earth to give a result of absolute marvel. 

You are in pain, you are in love, you are very happy, you are cheated upon, anything, JUST ANYTHING can be expressed in absolute perfection. 

Since this post is about metaphors, I want to share some of my favorites; some funny, some insanely deep, created by me, and picked up from various gazhals which I keep on hearing like an addict. They are obviously my interpretations and they might be not so precise...

First is from 1 of my favourite Jagjit Singh gazhals “Mujse bichad k” which goes like: 

 “Mujko sham bata deti hai, tum kaise kapde pehne ho” 

How stunningly and nonchalantly has the writer claimed of how well he knows his muse. He uses “kapde” (clothes) as a metaphor for her mood saying that the weather tells him about her mood, possibly also meaning that the weather changes with her moods telling her that she has such a strong aura around her. 

Second one is from a Ghulam Ali gazhal “Itni muddat baad” which says:

“Tez hawa ne mujhse poocha ret pe kya likhte rehte ho…”

The way he has very beautifully compared “tez hawa” (strong wind) with those strangers who have very bleak interaction with him and “mujse poocha ret pe kya likhte rehte ho” suggesting that these strangers pass by taunting at me telling me where do I really waste so much of my time. What is most beautiful here is how instead of just “hawa” “tez hawa” is used here to make it more impactful. 

Third is again from a jagjit singh gazhal “aadmi aadmi ko kya dega” which quotes:

“Mera kaatil hi mera munsif hai, kya mere haq main faisla dega”

This is the most beautiful one if u compares it with real life situations. It says “the person who judges me is the one who is/can be my murderer. Will his decision be in my favor?” 

I can go on and on about my favorite metaphors from my amazing collection of gazhals and sufi kalaams (Seriously! Vanity no apologies! :D) but this should be ended here..readers (if any :P) can post some they love! :)