- University of Chester: Saad Bashir
Let’s meet Saad Bashir!
Saad is a student at the University of Chester.
What part of the commonwealth are you celebrating today?
Pakistan
What is your favourite poem?
‘donon jahan teri mohabbat mein haar ke’ by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
What does the poem mean to you?
Faiz Ahmed Faiz is considered as one of the greatest poets of Urdu Language. He was from Pakistan. He spoke about love. This is just one of his many masterpieces.
‘donon jahan teri mohabbat mein haar ke’ by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Urdu Original)
donoñ jahān terī mohabbat meñ haar ke
vo jā rahā hai koī shab-e-ġham guzār ke
vīrāñ hai mai-kada ḳhum-o-sāġhar udaas haiñ
tum kyā ga.e ki ruuTh ga.e din bahār ke
ik fursat-e-gunāh milī vo bhī chaar din
dekhe haiñ ham ne hausle parvardigār ke
duniyā ne terī yaad se begāna kar diyā
tujh se bhī dil-fareb haiñ ġham rozgār ke
bhūle se muskurā to diye the vo aaj ‘faiz’
mat pūchh valvale dil-e-nā-kardā-kār ke
English Translation
Having lost out both the worlds in his love for you
Having spent a night of sorrow someone bids adieu
The tavern is forlorn the goblet flask too are blue
Now that you have left the days of spring have too
Leave to sin I did obtain but for days two and two
Courage of the lord divine is there for all to view
This world has caused me to forget all thoughts of you
The sorrows of subsistence are more deceitful than you
She did smile, by mistake, today at me anew
The joy of my dejected heart I cannot tell you
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