Subh se sha’m talak Doosro’n ke liye kuch karna hai Jisme’n khud apna koi naksh nahin

Zindagi Yeh Hai

Subh se sha’m talak

Doosro’n ke liye kuch karna hai

Jisme’n khud apna koi naksh nahin

Rang us paikare-tasweer hi mein bharna hai

Zindagi kya hai, kabhi sochne lagta hai yeh zehan

Aur phir rooh pe cha jate hain

Dard ke saye, udasi ka dhuan, dukh ki ghata

Dil mein rah-rah ke khayal a’ta hai

Zindagi yeh hai to phir maut kise kahte hain ?

Pyar ik khwab tha, is khwab ki ta’bir na pooch

Kya mili jurme-wafa ki hame’n ta’zir na pooch

 

This is Life

From morning to night

We must do things for others,

That living picture must be vivified

In which there is no trace of one’s self.

What is life, the mind sometimes wonders

And then the soul

Is overcast by shadows of grief

The smoke of despondency

Clouds of agony.

My heart wonders incessantly

If this is life, what is it that they call death?

Love was a dream

Ask not about the fate of this dream

Ask not about the punishment I received for the

crime of loyalty