Derwesh-e-khuda mast
The other day, we were discussing politics. No, it wasn't politics. We were discussing the prize money announced by Musharraf for the Pakistan cricket team for winning the series against England. It was 200,000 for each member of the team. I was arguing that it was rather inappropriate to give such a hefty amount to the cricketers when the country is borrowing 6 million dollars to provide relief effort to the earthquake victims. Anyways, the argument is not that important. This girl said that, "yaar aisha and asma will become the president and prime minister of pakistan", because of our apparent interest in politics. Someone replied, "no, they cant be becaue they are not diplomatic and one has to be diplomatic to be a leader.." something to that respect. And yeah, i thought about it and i realised how true that guy was. Although, i dont agree with the leader part (;)), i thought he was right otherwise. And i mentioned something about finding things when u need them the most and so the other day, I was going through these magazines for a religious studies presentation and I saw this beautiful verse by Iqbal. It had been written in the context of nationalism, which I will talk about later but well, I liked the verse. I will write it down in english as soon as i get the translation or come up with some good one myself. Anyways, here goes...
Derwesh-e-khuda mast na sharqi hai na gharbi,
ghar mera delhi na safahan na samrqand,
kehta hoon wohi baat samjhta hoon jissay haq,
nay abla-e-masjid hoon, na tehzeeb ka farzand,
apnay bhi khafa mujh say hain, beganay bhi nakhush
main zehr-e-halahil ko bhi keh na saka qand.
posted by shhhnuff duff @ 2:09 AM
1 Comments:
At 9:44 AM, ullu ka patha said…
acha sher hai.
I come online quite often these days. Its usually raat in Pakistan like around 10 pm. aa jaya karo. I'll try to be around earlier bhi. y r u naraz with amna?
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