Read it (the panjabi) on my Urdu blog but here is English translation which of course cannot have the same effect as the original Panjabi
" I say to Waris Shah today, speak up from your grave and add a new page to your book of love
Once a daughter of Panjab wept and you wrote a long saga; today thousands weep calling you Waris Shah
Arise O! friend of the afflicted, arise and see the state of Panjab; Corpses strewn on the fields and the Chenab flowing with blood.
Somebody filled the five rivers with poison and this same water now irrigates our soil
Where is lost the flute which sounded the songs of love; And the brothers of Ranjha have forgotten to play it
Poison Issues from each particle of this rich soil; with half foot (baalisht) of red and foot of poison from each
Blood has rained on the soil, graves are oozing with blood; The princesses of love cry out their hearts in the graveyard
Today all have become "Kaidoos" ( a classic Villain) thieves of beauty and love; Where today can we find another (like) Waris Shah."
Some words are so special like "friend of the afflicted" actual word 'Dardia" is much more than friend, it may be more like the Urdu "hamdard" which also cannot be any more than "sympathizer" Dardia includes the person who actually feels the pain of the 'afflicted and does something for its relief. Then bringing in all those references of Waris Shah himself like chenab and Ranjha etc. So totally Panjabi culture
Please visit my Urdu blog at http://saugoreebsc.blogspot.com/ and my Hindi blog at http://wahajuana.blogspot.com/
" I say to Waris Shah today, speak up from your grave and add a new page to your book of love
Once a daughter of Panjab wept and you wrote a long saga; today thousands weep calling you Waris Shah
Arise O! friend of the afflicted, arise and see the state of Panjab; Corpses strewn on the fields and the Chenab flowing with blood.
Somebody filled the five rivers with poison and this same water now irrigates our soil
Where is lost the flute which sounded the songs of love; And the brothers of Ranjha have forgotten to play it
Poison Issues from each particle of this rich soil; with half foot (baalisht) of red and foot of poison from each
Blood has rained on the soil, graves are oozing with blood; The princesses of love cry out their hearts in the graveyard
Today all have become "Kaidoos" ( a classic Villain) thieves of beauty and love; Where today can we find another (like) Waris Shah."
Some words are so special like "friend of the afflicted" actual word 'Dardia" is much more than friend, it may be more like the Urdu "hamdard" which also cannot be any more than "sympathizer" Dardia includes the person who actually feels the pain of the 'afflicted and does something for its relief. Then bringing in all those references of Waris Shah himself like chenab and Ranjha etc. So totally Panjabi culture
Please visit my Urdu blog at http://saugoreebsc.blogspot.com/ and my Hindi blog at http://wahajuana.blogspot.com/
2 comments:
She was really threatened after this poem. It was written at painful time of 1947 and in India she was seen as Anti-indian. I believe she was fired from All India Radio job for this or something like this.
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