.. title: §9. Shāʿir-e dar-māñdah
.. slug: itoohavesomedreams/poem_9
.. date: 2018-11-12 21:20:49 UTC
.. tags: poem itoohavesomedreams rashid
.. link: 
.. description: transliterated version of "Shāʿir-e dar-māñdah"
.. type: text



| zindagī tere liye bistar-e sanjāb-o-samūr
| aur mere liye afrang kī daryūzah-garī
| ʿāfiyat-koshī-e ābā ke t̤ufail,
| maiñ hūñ dar-māñdah-o-be-chārah adīb
| ḳhastah-e fikr-e maʿāsh!
| pārah-e nān-e javīñ ke liye mǒḥtāj haiñ ham
| maiñ, mire dost, mire saiñkṛoñ arbāb-e vat̤an
| yaʿnī afrang ke gulzāroñ ke phūl!
| tujhe ik shāʿir-e dar-māñdah kī ummīd nah thī
| mujh se jis roz sitārah tirā vā-bastah huʾā
| tū samajhtī thī kih ik roz mirā żěhn-e rasā
| aur mire ʿilm-o-hunar
| baḥr-o-bar se tirī zīnat ko guhar lāʾeñge!
| mere raste meñ jo ḥāʾil hoñ mire tīrah naṣīb
| kyoñ duʿāʾeñ tirī be-kār nah jāʾeñ
| tere rātoñ ke sujūd aur niyāz
| (us kā bāʿiṡ mirā ilḥād bhī hai!)
| 
| ai mirī shamʿ-e shabistān-e vafā,
| bhūl jā mere liye
| zindagī ḳhvāb kī āsūdah farāmoshī hai!
| tujhe maʿlūm hai mashriq kā ḳhudā koʾī nahīñ
| aur agar hai, to sarā-pardah-e nisyān meñ hai
| tū "masarrat" hai mirī, tū mirī "be-dārī" hai
| mujhe āġhosh meñ le
| do "anā" mil-ke jahāñ soz baneñ
| aur jis ʿahd kī hai tujh ko duʿāʾoñ meñ talāsh
| āp hī āp huvaidā ho jāʾe!

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.. admonition:: I Too Have Some Dreams: N. M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry

  A translation of this Urdu poem by N. M. Rashed as well as this transliteration appears in the
  appendix of *I Too Have Some Dreams*. The transliteration is intended for
  people who can understand Urdu/Hindi or related languages. I hope to soon 
  add performances of these poems as well. 
  
  .. link_figure:: /itoohavesomedreams/
        :title: I Too Have Some Dreams Resource Page
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