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Ghalib (Urdu: غاؔلِب‬‎ Hindi: ग़ालिब) born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu: مِرزا اسَدُاللہ بیگ خان‬ Hindi: मिर्ज़ा असदुल्लाह् बेग खiन) 26 June 1797 - 15 February 1869) was a prominent Urdu and Persian-language poetduring the last years of the Mughal Empire.. He used his pen-names of Ghalib (Urdu: غالِب‬ ġhālib means "dominant") and Asad (Urdu: اسَد‬ Asad means "lion"). His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk Najm-ud-Daula. During his lifetime the Mughals were eclipsed and displaced by the British and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857 events that he described. Most notably he wrote several ghazals during his life which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. Ghalib the last great poet of the Mughal Era is considered to be one of the most famous and influential poets of the Urdulanguage. Today Ghalib remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also among the Hindustani diaspora around the world.

Mirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal Agra into a family descended from Aibak Turkswho moved to Samarkand(in modern-day Uzbekistan) after the downfall of the Seljukkings. His paternal grandfather Mirza Qoqan Baig Khan was a Saljuq Turk who had immigrated to India from Samarkand during the reign of Ahmad Shah (1748–54). He worked at Lahore Delhiand Jaipur was awarded the subdistrict of Pahasu (Bulandshahr UP) and finally settled in Agra UP India. He had four sons and three daughters. Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan and Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan were two of his sons.

Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan (Ghalib's father) married Izzat-ut-Nisa Begum an ethnic Kashmiri and then lived at the house of his father-in-law. He was employed first by the Nawab of Lucknow and then the Nizam of Hyderabad Deccan. He died in a battle in 1803 in Alwar and was buried at Rajgarh (Alwar Rajasthan). Then Ghalib was a little over 5 years of age. He was raised first by his Uncle Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan.

At the age of thirteen Ghalib married Umrao Begum daughter of Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh (brother of the Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka). He soon moved to Delhi along with his younger brother Mirza Yousuf Khan who had developed schizophrenia at a young age and later died in Delhi during the chaos of 1857.

In accordance with upper class Muslim tradition he had an arranged marriage at the age of 13 but none of his seven children survived beyond infancy. After his marriage he settled in Delhi. In one of his letters he describes his marriage as the second imprisonment after the initial confinement that was life itself. The idea that life is one continuous painful struggle which can end only when life itself ends is a recurring theme in his poetry. One of his couplets puts it in a nutshell:

قید حیات و بند غم ، اصل میں دونوں ایک ہیں‬موت سے پہلے آدمی غم سے نجات پائے کیوں؟‬

Transliteration in Hindi

क़ैद-ए-हयात-ओ-बंद-ए-ग़म अस्ल में दोनों एक हैंमौत से पहले आदमी ग़म से निजात पाए क्यूँ?

Translation in English

The prison of life and the bondage of grief are one and the sameBefore the onset of death why should man expect to be free of grief?

Mirza Ghalib's view of world as he sees world is like a playground where everyone is busy in some mundane activity and merrymaking rather than something of greater value as he wrote:

باغیچۂ اطفال ہے دنیا میرے آگے ‬ہوتا ہے شب و روز تماشا میرے آگے ‬

Transliteration in Hindi

बाज़ीचा-ए-अत्फ़ाल है दुनिया मेरे आगेहोता है शबो-रोज़ तमाशा मेरे आगे।

Translation in English

Just like a child's play this world appears to meEvery single night and day this spectacle I see

At the age of thirty he had seven children none of whom survived (this pain has found its echo in some of Ghalib's ghazals). There are conflicting reports regarding his relationship with his wife. She was considered to be pious conservative and God-fearing.
मिर्ज़ा ग़ालिब की शायरिया ।