arz-o-sama kahan teri wusat ko pa sake
mera hi dil hai wo ki jahan tu sama sake

how can earth and heaven, your vastness contemplate?
it's just my heart, your glory, that can accommodate

wahdat mein teri harf dui ka na aa sake
aaina kya majal tujhe munh dikha sake

the stigma of duality, on you there cannot be
a mirror does not have the nerve / to show its face to thee

main wo fatada hun ki baghair-az-fana mujhe
naqsh-e-qadam ki tarah na koi utha sake

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qasid nahin ye kaam tera apni rah le
us ka payam dil ke siwa kaun la sake

it's not your task o messenger, you should go your way
save for the heart, his message, who else can convey?

ghafil khuda ki yaad pe mat bhul zinhaar
apne tain bhula de agar tu bhula sake

don't forget the thought of god, o foolish one, pay heed
if you can, forgetfulness, of self is what you need

ya-rab ye kya tilism hai idrak-o-fahm yan
daude hazar aap se bahar na ja sake

o lord, what enchantment this / of knowledge and insight?
cannot breach my being though try, a thousand times i might

go bahs kar ke baat bithai bhi kya husul
dil se utha ghilaf agar tu utha sake

though you may win an argument, will it be of use?
the cloak upon your heart is what / you should try to lose

itfa-e-nar-e-ishq na ho aab-e-ashk se
ye aag wo nahin jise pani bujha sake

love's fire can't be doused by tears, fully though be drenched
this is not a fire which, by water can be quenched

mast-e-sharab-e-ishq wo be-khud hai jis ko hashr
ai 'dard' chahe lae ba-khud par na la sake

in love's heady wine immersed, is that enraptured soul
if rapture too, went after him, it would not reach its goal