Mujhse pehli si mohabbat mere mehboob na maang- Trying to understand this mystical poem

Premise of the Ghazal: 

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was an Urdu poet who was influenced by the romanticist poetry of Mirza Ghalib and Allama Iqbal. His early works mirrors his romantic, optimistic and light thoughts about life. But many things changed after Independence. After Independence he moved to Pakistan and as a person supporting equality and impressed by Marxist thoughts, he established Communist Party of Pakistan. After the death of then Prime minister of Pakistan, whom he was an active opponent, he came under suspicion of anti government activity and was sentenced to Imprisonment for a long time. And at this time only he wrote this Ghazal.

 

Explanation:

(The Numbers refer to the stanza and explanation is written in First person so as to understand the mindset of poet)

 

1. Mujhse Pehli si Muhabbat Mere Mehboob Na maang,

Maine socha ke tu hai to darakshan hai hayat.

-Do not ask the Love that I have given to you earlier , because at that time I thought my life would have Shone for eternity if I had you 

(Means the type of innocent love they were having It clearly means that lover was full of hope of better life after having loved one).

 

2. Tera gham hai to gham e dehar ka jhagda kya hai, 

Teri aankhon ke siwa duniya mein rakkha kya hai.

-If your sorrows are there the worldly sorrows are of no consequences (means life was just about caring her), and there is no world except your eyes.

(It means the whole world is just what she wants him to see nothing else, though this stanza may have deeper meaning)

 

3.Tu mil jata toh sab kuchh badal jaata,

Yun Na tha kash ke yun ho jaata.

-And if you were in my life everything (my destiny) would have changed, it wasn't like that but I thought it could have happened.

(This is my favorite part because it's the turning point from whichWriter comes to reality from whole that romance, and starts understanding that love doesn't changesEverything)
 

4. Aaj bhi dilkash hai Tera husn magar kya kijiye,

Laut jaati hai udhar jaakar nazar kya kijiye.

-And though your beauty is still amazing but what could be done my eyes never truly turns towards you what could be done.

(Here Faiz implies that though nothing has changed between themNeither her beauty nor his love, but the way he has started seeing things has started changing, he is now gaining deeper meanings of life and his attitude.)
 

5. Anginat tariqi sadiyon ke bahimana tilism,

Koocha o bazaar mein ja ba jaa bikte jism.

-And that magic we say existing for centuries, and how those bodies are being sold at many market and street.

(Faiz talks about love. He clarify that though we say that magic of love exist for Centuries and love is the biggest positivity, magic, etc but can we believe in it after seeing people selling Themselves for a price at many markets and Lanes.)
 

6. Aur bhi gham hai zamane mein Muhabbat ke siwa,

Raahatein Aur bhi hai vasl ki raahat ki siwa

-And there are lots of sorrows in this world other than the sorrows of love, and there are other pleasures also other than the pleasure of being together.

(What he wants to say is that, see the world around us. Love has sorrows but there are also other sorrows bigger or equal than love. And there are other pleasures also other than us being together. Yeah it would be great pleasure if we would have been together, but if it isn't like that than other pleasures doesn't lose importance or should be neglected.)