Khayyam

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هنگام گل و باده و یاران سرمست

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Rumi

Listen to The Poetry of Rumi in Persian and English by On Being #np on #SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/onbeing/sets/the-poetry-of-rumi-in-persian-and-english

Rumi's Like that

If anyone asks you about the houris, 
show your face, say: like this. 

If anyone asks you about the moon, 
climb up on the roof, say: "Like this." 

If anyone seeks a fairy, 
let them see your countenance. 

If anyone talks about the aroma of musk, 
untie your hair and say: "Like this." 

If anyone asks: "How do the clouds uncover the moon?" 
untie the front of your robe, knot by knot, say: "Like this." 

If anyone asks: "How did Jesus raise the dead?' 
kiss me on the lips, say: "Like this."

If anyone asks: "What are those killed by love like?" 
direct him to me, say: "Like this." 

If anyone kindly asks you how tall I am, 
show him your arched eyebrows, say: "Like this."

هر کی ز حور پرسدت رخ بنما که همچنین

هر کی ز ماه گویدت بام برآ که همچنین

هر کی پری طلب کند چهره خود بدو نما

هر کی ز مشک دم زند زلف گشا که همچنین

هر کی بگویدت ز مه ابر چگونه وا شود

باز گشا گره گره بند قبا که همچنین

گر ز مسیح پرسدت مرده چگونه زنده کرد

بوسه بده به پیش او جان مرا که همچنین

هر کی بگویدت بگو کشته عشق چون بود

عرضه بده به پیش او جان مرا که همچنین

هر کی ز روی مرحمت از قد من بپرسدت

ابروی خویش عرضه ده گشته دوتا که همچنین

جان ز بدن جدا شود باز درآید اندرون

هین بنما به منکران خانه درآ که همچنین

هر طرفی که بشنوی ناله عاشقانه‌ای

قصه ماست آن همه حق خدا که همچنین

خانه هر فرشته‌ام سینه کبود گشته‌ام

چشم برآر و خوش نگر سوی سما که همچنین

سر وصال دوست را جز به صبا نگفته‌ام

تا به صفای سر خود گفت صبا که همچنین

کوری آنک گوید او بنده به حق کجا رسد

در کف هر یکی بنه شمع صفا که همچنین

گفتم بوی یوسفی شهر به شهر کی رود

بوی حق از جهان هو داد هوا که همچنین

گفتم بوی یوسفی چشم چگونه وادهد

چشم مرا نسیم تو داد ضیا که همچنین

از تبریز شمس دین بوک مگر کرم کند

وز سر لطف برزند سر ز وفا که همچنین

ی ظہور تو شباب زندگی
جلوہ ات تعبیر خواب زندگی
ای زمین از بارگاہت ارجمند
آسمان از بوسۂ بامت بلند
شش جہت روشن ز تاب روی تو
ترک و تاجیک و عرب ہندوی تو
از تو بالا پایۂ این کائنات
فقر تو سرمایۂ این کائنات
در جہان شمع حیات افروختی
بندگان را خواجگی آموختی
بی تو از نابودمندیہا خجل
پیکران این سرای آب و گل
تا دم تو آتشے از گل گشود
تودہ ہای خاک را آدم نمود
ذرہ دامن گیر مہر و ماہ شد
یعنی از نیروی خویش آگاہ شد
تا مرا افتاد بر رویت نظر
از اب و ام گشتۂ ئی محبوب تر
عشق در من آتشی افروخت است
فرصتش بادا کہ جانم سوخت است
نالہ ئی مانند نی سامان من
آن چراغ خانۂ ویران من

Misfit by Parveen Shakir

مس فٹ

کبھی کبھی میں سوچتی ہوں 
مجھ میں لوگوں کو خوش رکھنے کا ملکہ
اتنا کم کیوں ہے
۔کچھ لفظوں سے۔کچھ میرے لہجے سے خفا ہیں 
پہلے میری ماں میری مصروفیت سے
نالاں رہتی تھی
اب یہی گلہ مجھ سے میرے بیٹے کو ہے
رزق کی اندھی دوڑ میں رشتے کتنے پیچھے رہ جاتے ہیں 
جبکہ صورتِ حال تو یہ ہے
میرا گھر میرے عورت ہونے کی 
مجبوری کا پورا لطف اٹھاتا ہے
ہر صبح میرے شانوں پر زمہ داری کا بوجھا لیکن
پہلے سے بھاری ہوتا ہے
پھر بھی میری پشت پہ نا اہلی کا کوب
روز بروز نمایاں ہوتا جاتا ہے
پھر میرا دفتر ہے
جہاں تقرر کی پہلی ہی شرط کے طور پہ
خود داری کا استعفی دائر کرنا تھا
میں پتھر بنجر زمینوں میں پھول اگانے کی کوشش کرتی ہوں 
کبھی ہریالی دکھ جاتی ہے
ورنہ
پتھر
بارش سے اکثر ناراض ہی رہتے ہیں 
مرا قبیلہ
میرے حرف میں روشنی ڈھونڈ نکالتا ہے
لیکن مجھ کو
اچھی طرح معلوم ہے
کس کی نظریں لفظ پہ ہیں 
اور کس کی خالق پر
سارے دائرے میرے پاووءں سے چھوٹے ہیں 
لیکن وقت کا وحشی ناچ
کسی مقام نہیں رکتا
رقص کی لے ہر لمحہ تیز ہوئی جاتی ہے
یا تو میں کچھ اور ہوں 
یا پھر یہ میرا سیارہ نہیں ہے۔۔۔

Of death

عجب نیست در خاک اگر گُل شگف

کہ چندیں گُل اندام در خاک خُفت

شیخ سعدی شیرازی

سب کہاں؟ کچھ لالہ و گل میں نمایاں ہو گئیں

خاک میں کیا صورتیں ہوں گی کہ پنہاں ہو گئیں

غالب۔

جیون جیون جھوٹا ناواں ـــــ موت کھلی سر اتے

 لکھ کروڑ تیرے تھیں سوہنے خاک اندر رل ستے 

حضرت میاں محمد

T.S. Eliot's “Genuine poetry [that] can communicate before it is understood.” 

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.” 

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” 

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.” 

“Do I dare 
Disturb the universe? 
In a minute there is time 
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.” 

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.” 


“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” 

“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.” 

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” 

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” 
“Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.” 

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.” 

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity” 

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.” 

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” 

“The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.” 

“Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.” 

“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.” 

“There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.” 

"We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.” 

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ” 

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” 

“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.” 

“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.” 

“music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”

“Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.” 

“Where is the Life we lost in living?” 

“To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.” 

“People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.” 

“Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other 
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech” 

“The journey, Not the destination matters...” 

“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.” 

“All cases are unique, and very similar to others.” 

“I learn a good deal by merely observing you,
And letting you talk as long as you please,
And taking note of what you do not say.” 

“I've been born, and once is enough.” 

Come to the orchard in Spring

گفتی که: بیا که باغ خندید و بهار

شمعست و شراب و شاهدان چو نگار

آنجا که تو نیستی از اینهام چه سود؟

Come to the orchard in Spring.

There is light and wine, and sweethearts

In the pomegranate flowers.

If you do not come, these do not matter.

If you do come, these do not matter.

و آنجا که تو هستی خود از اینها بچه کار؟