Amir Khusro

Translation:

I dressed myself up to go see my Love

but when I saw him, I forgot myself

you robbed me of everything

when our eyes met

 

You made me drink love’s elixir

and I got drunk

when our eyes met

 

My fair arms with green bangles

you took by the wrist

when our eyes met

 

Again and again I bow to you

my cloth-dyer whose dye colours everyhting

you dyed me in yourself

when our eyes met

 

You became the charming lover—

you left me breathless

when our eyes met

 

Khusro gives his life to you, Nizam

you made me a bride

when our eyes met

 

Transliteration:

Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Prem bhatee ka madhva pilaikay
Matvali kar leeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Gori gori bayyan, hari hari churiyan
Bayyan pakar dhar leeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Bal bal jaaon mein toray rang rajwa
Apni see kar leeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Khusrau Nijaam kay bal bal jayyiye
Mohay Suhaagan keeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay

 

Original:

With my beautiful face all adorned, when I went to the beloved,
I saw his face, and forgot all about my own beauty.

Transliteration:

Apni chhab banaikay, jo main pi kay paas gayi
Chhab dekhi jab piyu ki so apni bhool gayi.

Hafez

 

Translation:

Show me your face and make me forget I exist

         Let the wind take the harvest of burned ones

Since I let the storm of calamity take my heart and sight

         Let the flood of grief take my house from its foundation

Who smells his tress which is like raw ambergris

         O naive heart, take this question out of your mind

Tell the chest: burn hotter than the flames of the fire-temple of Fars

          Tell the eye: overflow, put the Tigris of Baghdad to shame

On this path, no place can be reached without effort

            If you seek reward, then obey the master

Long live the Magian Pir, the rest is trivial

           Let the others go away and forget my name

Promise to visit me for a moment on the day of my death

            and then carry me to the grave, unbound and free

Last night he said he would kill me with his long eyelashes

          O Lord, take the thought of cruelty from his mind

Hafez, consider the beloved’s sensitive nature

           Leave his doorstep, and take this weeping and wailing with you

 

Original:

روی بنمای و وجود خودم از یاد ببر
خرمن سوختگان را همه گو باد ببر
ما چو دادیم دل و دیده به طوفان بلا
گو بیا سیل غم و خانه ز بنیاد ببر
زلف چون عنبر خامش که ببوید هیهات
ای دل خام طمع این سخن از یاد ببر
سینه گو شعله آتشکده فارس بکش
دیده گو آب رخ دجله بغداد ببر
دولت پیر مغان باد که باقی سهل است
دیگری گو برو و نام من از یاد ببر
سعی نابرده در این راه به جایی نرسی
مزد اگر می‌طلبی طاعت استاد ببر
روز مرگم نفسی وعده دیدار بده
وان گهم تا به لحد فارغ و آزاد ببر
دوش می‌گفت به مژگان درازت بکشم
یا رب از خاطرش اندیشه بیداد ببر
حافظ اندیشه کن از نازکی خاطر یار
برو از درگهش این ناله و فریاد ببر