Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, ......

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, 

because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

 

God is not present in idols. .....

God is not present in idols. 

Your feelings are your god. 

The soul is your temple.

 

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow ........

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, 

but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

 

Father, I will not go to school ....... AKSHR

 

Father, I will not go to school, 

there they teach the history of days long dead.

While a single man on this earth remains, _____ Akshr

  While a single man on this earth remains, 

until all men have vanished, 

                         do not let poor parrots be born,                         

Oh Lord, please hear my prayer!

Woman is a pot filled with Lakshmi's gifts. ...... Akshr

Woman is a pot filled with Lakshmi's gifts.

 

Woman is a waterfall, she is the Ganga, flowing down from Shiva's head. ........

A crowd of blind men are eager to discover the nature of woman;

the first strokes her smooth, flowing hair and mutters,

 "Woman is a waterfall, she is the Ganga, flowing down from Shiva's head.

 

I hate the scent of the prettiest flower, _____ AKSHR

I hate the loveliest star-studded silks, 

I hate the scent of the prettiest flower, 

I hate the moonlight's thin, lacy veil,          

I hate your sweetest love song, because, 

because,  they come between your lips and mine.

 

Relationship with the 'visible', _____ Shah Latif

Relationship with the 'visible', In no case do desire- 

Why not you for the real enquire and set out, seeking that?

Hear, and take note, that you yourself are 'barrier _____ Shah Latif

Hear, and take note, that you yourself  are 'barrier', and what is Between the union and its bliss Is nothing but yourself.

 

Eyes weep and yet rejoice each day to look and to adore ____ Shah Latif

Eyes weep and yet rejoice each day to look and to adore-The more they see loved-ones, the more drunk they with love do get

 

If my eyes at rise for other Sight _____ Shah Latif

If my eyes at rise for other Sight than the Beloved care-From their sockets I will tear My eyes as morsels for the crows.

 

Let your eyes an offering be ____ Shah Latif

Let your eyes an offering be for Loved-one ere you break your fast; Sumptuous dishes seventy You'll get by seeing Loved-ones face.

 

Were I to own a hundred heads _____ Shah Latif

Were I to own a hundred heads 

and weigh them with thy strings-

Behold the scale, how down it swings 

On side of strings divine!

 

O Friend, my head is only bone: An empty, empty bone- ..... Shah Latif

O Friend, my head is only bone: An empty, empty bone-

If thousand heads my neck would own I'll cut them all for thee!

 

O rise, and to thy haven farthy earthbound glances bear, ..... Shah Latif

O rise, and to thy haven farthy earthbound glances bear,

May be a happy welcome thereawaits thee from thy 

 

They read and read, ..... Shah Latif .... Akshr

They read and read, 

but what they read their hearts refuse to store-

The more they pages turn, 

the more are deeply steeped in sin.

 

پڙهيو ٿا پڙهن، ڪڙهن ڪين قلوب ۾،

پاڻان ڏوهه چڙهن، جئن ورق ورائين وِترا.

 

پڑھ پڑھ کر بنے ہیں عالم، سوز سے خالی دل،

جوں جوں پڑھیں کتابیں ان کو پاپ ہوا حاصل۔ 

 

A hundred suns may rise ....... Shah Latif ..... Akshr

A hundred suns may rise,

and blaze four score-four moons may shine;

I vow, without Beloved mine           

I am in darkest night

 

سورج ابھرین چار طرف اور، ہر سو ابھریں چاند،

ساجن بن سب ماند، تاریکی ہی تاریکی ہے۔

 

چنڊ! تنهنجي ذات پاڙيان نه پريڻ سين،

تون اڇو ۾ رات، سڄڻ نت سوجهرو.

 

 

 

 

 

Unuttered is unknown... ____ Shah Latif

Unuttered is unknown...

        the uttered is never understood....                    

behold, Although it be as true as gold,

humanity takes never note.

..... Shsh Latif

Patience, humanity adopt, ------ Shah Latif

Patience, humanity adopt, 

For anger is disease-

For bearance bringeth joy and 'peace', 

if you would understand.

Shah Latif 

 

.... try to find the source where words were formed. ____Shah Latif

 

O friend, why are you still inclined to waste paper and ink-

Go rather forth and try to find the source where words were formed. _

____Shah Latif

Oh heart! and now make this your aim" ..... SHAH LATIF

Those that cut me up, 

became   the kindly surgeon too-

                                          The wound they quickly dressed, 

and cured  within a day the same

                  Oh heart! and now make this your aim"                                   

      stay with them, and be safe from wounds"

_____ Shah Latif

.... it is as though the leech had come!.....

 As long there is no need, 

so long physician is not here...

But when one-day pain does appear 

it is as though the leech had come!

 

He it is who weaves the web of this maya ......

He it is who weaves the web of this maya in evanescent hues of gold and silver, blue and green, and lets peep out through the folds his feet, at whose touch. -Tagore

 

"I am only waiting for love to give

"I am only waiting for love to give 

myself up at least into his hands."

 

"Light, my light, the world-filling light, .....

"Light, my light, the world-filling light, 

the eye-kissing light, heart sweetening light!"

Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small, ......

Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,

That stood along the floor and by the wall;

And some loquacious Vessels were; and some

Listened perhaps, but never talked at all.

 

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,.......

 

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,

Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit

Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,

Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, ......

I sent my Soul through the Invisible,

Some letter of that After-life to spell:

And by and by my Soul returned to me,

And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:"

 

Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! .......

Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!

One thing at least is certain--This Life flies;

One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

Drink wine because time is treacherous enemy,......

Drink wine because time is treacherous enemy,

Coming upon such a day as this is not easy.

 

If the heart is awake, do not waste this moment ........

If the heart is awake, do not waste this moment-

There is no proof of life’s continuance.

 

Drink wine since you do not know where you are from,......

Drink wine since you do not know where you are from,

Be happy, you do not know where you will go.

 

Be happy for the moment – it is all life is. ......

It is the season for wine, roses and friends drinking together,

Be happy for the moment – it is all life is.

 

Drink wine, not tears........

Drink wine, not tears – the sage has said,

Wine is the antidote for sorrow’s poison.

 

Do not expect much of the world and live contended, ......

Do not expect much of the world and live contended,

Ignore the good and ill that time brings.

It burns like fire, but puts an end to grief ........

It burns like fire, but puts an end to grief,

It’s like water of life drink it.

 

But I fear one-day cry will go up ______

But I fear one-day cry will go up,

Oh you fools, neither this nor that is the way!

Wind is to fire like distance is to love _____ AKSHR

Wind is to fire like distance is to love

Wind is to fire like distance is to love;

it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.

Without a need for stilts or girders,

the crow-bound walker

spins the earth.

The light from passing cars

caught in his eyes like an optical illusion,

or the wing-strokes of a single moth.

Without any need for ceremony,

or even conscious thought,

he is off, in the direction of the next light.

_____ AKSHR