If one ever needs any reason to understand why there are millions in this world who still listen to Ghazals, here are some of them:

1.

Ranjish hee sahee, dil hee dukhaane ke liye aa...

aa phir se mujhe chhod ke jaane ke liye aa....

Oh darling! If you are upset, at least come to admonish me. If only to leave me again, you must come to meet me.

2.

Maikade band karen lakh zamaane waale..

shehar mein kam nahi aankhon se pilaane waale.

The world might close all the wine-bars.. but there is nostopping me from getting intoxicated by the sheer beauty ofa woman's eyes.

3.

Tere pyaar ne mujhe gham diyaa, tere gham ke umra daraaz ho...

Voh zamaana aaye khuda kare, mere pyaar par tujhe naaz ho ...

I have suffered in your love, may you equally suffer too. May Godmake you understand the importance of my love one day.

Try as I might to maintain the emotions of these "Sher"s in the English translation, they can never match the sheer beauty of the original language.

If there is one quality that separates Human Beings from other creations of God on this earth, it is the ability to communicate with peers. From the times of cavemen, when Men (pardon me for my chauvinism; considerate people may read it as Men/Women) started painting on the walls of his cave or invented other extraneous signs besides the natural gifts of sounds or facial expressions that natured has bestowed upon him, was the wheel of communication set to roll, the termination of it is unimaginable as the end of time. The advent of a script to represent verbal language added a new dimension to communication. But the beauty of communication has never been better expressed than from one's own mouth. Even today, expression of one's love for another finds its way out of heart more often through the mouth than the hand.

Human creativity reached its peak, when he added dimensions of time and scale to his speech and invented something that has become such inseparable part of our life that its presence is almost taken for granted. This, which I dare term the greatest invention of Mankind, is Music. So integral to our lives has Music become, that life without it is something that I even shudder to think. It is a universal language; one that touches the hearts of millions regardless of the inherent differences that most Humans would like to believe they carry with respect to another specimen of the same species. It is indeed amazing how a sequence of notes can make one cry, laugh, or jump with joy.

It is a gift handed down to us from our ancestors that we must cherish and preserve.