• Kiyoon ziyan kar banoon sood framosh rahoon?
  • Fikr-e-farda na karoon mehv-e-gham-e-dosh rahoon?
  • Naale bulbul ke sunoon aur hama tan gosh rahoon
  • Ham navaa! mai bhi koi gul hoon ke khamosh rahoon?
  • Jur'at aamoze miri taab-e-sukhan hai mujh ko
  • Shikwa Allah se "khakam badahan" hai muhj ko

English Translation

  • Why must I forever suffer loss, oblivious to gain?
  • Why think not upon the morrow, drowned in grief for yesterday?
  • Why must I attentive heed the nightingale's lament of pain?
  • Fellow-bard! am I rose, condemned to silence all the way?
  • No; the burning power of song bids me be bold and not to faint;
  • Dust be in my mouth, but God - He is the theme of my complaint.