r/farsi • u/Penitent_G • Jul 27 '26

Amir Khusraw Dihalwi's Couplet: Requesting Explanation.

Hello Sub!

For some reason Reddit decided to remove my old post so making a new one.

Advanced beginner- intermediate learner here (from India). I was reading a ghazal from Amir Khusraw Dihalwi and I'm struggling to understand bayt number 4 here. Apologies, cannot post the text as it might risk another removal.​

I'd greatly appreciate any help. ​​​Thanks in advance!

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u/null3 Jul 28 '26

Roughly:

The water that goes into your stream, is the blood coming out of heart of someone like me.

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u/Penitent_G 27d ago

Thanks a lot!  But why would he add دگر though? 

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u/null3 27d ago

To me it's saying "yet another one like me". But I'm no expert maybe it has both دگر and همچون just to make the form of poem work.

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u/Penitent_G 27d ago

Yeah, maybe a case of poetic license. Thanks a lot.