Daya shankar nasim biography of williams

panDit daya shankar kaul nasim (1811-1845), is better known for his masnavi, gulzar-e nasim. A masnavi is a long/epic, narrative, romantic/sufiyaana poem of thousands of couplets.

‘gulzar-e nasim’ was considered so good that critics decided that it could not have been written by a non-muslim. daya shankar nasim died at a very early age and it was left to panDit brij mohan chakbast to conclusively show that nasim was indeed the real author/poet.
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dil-ba-dil aaina¹ hai dair² o haram³
haq⁴ jo poochho ek dar⁵ hai do taraf⁶

1.mirror, conscience 2.temple 3.mosque 4.truth 5.door 6.side, direction

Mirror is used here in the sense of looking at oneself in the mirror to see one’s own faults … like conscience.

Thus, temple and mosque serve as a conscience in every heart. If you ask the truth, it is the same door (to righteousness) on both sides.
2
Khwaah¹ kaaba Khwaah but-Khaane² ko ja
dasht³-e dil ka rahguzar⁴ hai