Whoso like unto the dust, may not be prostrate at the threshold,
For them, there will be no approach unto heaven and to bliss.
The nightingale that bewaileth when he approacheth the rose,
Thus saith:-“Alas, some day the parterre will cease to be!”
The rent in my heart will, by no means, unite again,
Till it shall be sewn together, with the thread of thy locks.
The name of thy tresses I will ne’er take upon my tongue again;
For the prudent snake-charmer hath naught with black snakes to do.
Be not inferior unto the Hindu female, for the honour of thy beloved;
For the blazing funeral pyre will have no terrors for her.
Every moment, that I behold the object of my love, is a jubilee to me:
I shall then be without a festival, when my beloved may not be.
Upon what part of me wilt thou place a plaster, O physician!
When the wound of the eyelashes of the beloved may not be seen?
The name of love is unlawful upon the lips of him,
Whose whole frame may not be suffering about his beloved.
O Khushal! let there be no estrangement between thy love and thee;
For the world’s short hour will not be immutable always.
(Khoshal Khan Khattak)
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