मेरा अहवाल (Mera ahvaal) -- Mirza Dawood

[Urdu Couplet #04]

मेरा अहवाल चश्मेयारसे पूछ

हक़ीक़त दर्दकी बीमारसे पूछ

Mera ahvaal chasm-e-yaar se pooch

Haqiqat dardki bimaar se pooch

अहवाल (ahvaal) = Condition; चश्मेयार (chasm-e-yaar) = beloved's eyes; हक़ीक़त (Haqiqat) = truth;
दर्द (dard) = pain; बीमार (bimaar) = someone who is ill

[English Meaning]

Ask the beloved's eyes about my condition (See my condition in the beloved's eyes)

Ask a sick person the truth about pain (Know the truth about pain from a sick person)

About the Poet

Mirza Dawood was a 17th-century poet from Aurangabad, a contemporary of the poet Wali. The lines are from his collection इंतक़ादियात भाग २ (Intakadiyaat Part 2). 

ज़िंदगी जामेयेश है (Zindagi Jaam-e-yaish hai) -- Wali Deccani

[Urdu Couplet #02]

ज़िंदगी जामेयेश है लेकिन 

फायदा क्या अगर मुदाम नहीं

Zindagi Jaam-e-yaish hai lekin

Fayada kya agar mudaam nahi

जामेयेश (Jaam-e-yaish) = bowl of joy, मुदाम (Mudaam) = constant, unvarying

[English Meaning]

Life is a bowl of joy but

What is the use if it is not constant

About the Poet: 
Wali was from Deccan (Aurangabad, Maharashtra) Historians consider Wali as the first Urdu poet. He was the one who introduced the Persian poets in Delhi to a new language 'Rekhta' (called Urdu today) from the Deccan plateau. It was from the time of Wali that the language started taking the form as it stands today. Wali started writing ghazals in Urdu as against in Persian like his contemporaries. He was the one who started expressing a man's emotions about love in his poetry breaking the tradition of expressing fragility, vulnerability and emotional love only through a Woman's voice.

Source of Reference:
Compilation Sher-O-Sukhan (Author: Ayodhyaprasad Goyaliya) 

Online Reference:
http://www.urdupoetry.com 
http://www.poemhunter.com/wali-mohammed-wali/  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wali_Muhammad_Wali