عشق
آن حرف دلفروز که راز هست و راز نیستمن فاش گویمت که شنید از کجا شنید
Let me expose to you who heard, and where, that heart-enkindling word which is, and which is not, a mystery.
وہ حرف دلفروز (عشق) جو راز بھی ہے اور نہیں بھی؛ میں تمہیں کھول کر بتاتا ہوں کہ اسے کس نے سنا اور کہاں سے سنا۔
دزدید ز آسمان و به گل گفت شبنمشبلبل ز گل شنید و ز بلبل صبا شنید
Dew stole it from the sky, and dropped it in the rose’s ear. The rose passed it on to the nightingale, which sang it to the breezes as a wail.
شبنم نے اس حرف کو آسمان سے چرایا اور پھول کو بتایا؛ پھول سے بلبل نے سنا اور بلبل سے صبا نے (پھر صبا نے اسے عام کر دیا)۔
Sources and translator credits
- Original Persian transcription: عشق — Pinned Ganjoor data commit a64968e78425b2e8c7904fbdf5289fba8251a757; the underlying printed edition is not identified by the export.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- payam-e-mashriq: published English translation by ہادی حسین — Published digital poem page (2vv289jd.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by ہادی حسین; Published English translation credited on the Zinderood digital poem page; the exact source unit is recorded with each imported passage.Source
- payam-e-mashriq: published Urdu translation by میاں عبدالرشید — Published digital poem page (2vv289jd.json); retrieved 2026-10-05.Translation by میاں عبدالرشید; Published Urdu translation credited on the Zinderood digital poem page; the exact source unit is recorded with each imported passage.Source