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Zindagi Be-Saaeban, Be-Ghar Kahin Aisi Na Thi

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ज़िन्दगी बे-साएबाँ बे-घर कहीं ऐसी न थी। (Zindagi Be-Saaeban Be-Ghar Kahin Aisi Na Thi) - Nowhere Life Was Roofless,Homeless Like That - Parveen Shakir Parveen Shakir was a prominent women Urdu ghazal writer ( shayara ). Her ghazals and shayari are from women's point of few and talks about love, lover, feminism, betrayal, romanticism ,etc from the point of view of girl/women. I read this love ghazal of her after encountering a Sher from it and than decided to translate it. In this ghazal she talked about separation from her lover and the changes which it brings in her life. I hope you will like my translation. Read more on this ghazal : Here ज़िंदगी बे-साएबाँ बे-घर कहीं ऐसी न थी, आसमाँ ऐसा नहीं था और ज़मीं ऐसी न थी।  Zindagi Be-Saaeban Be-Ghar Kahin Aisi Na Thi, Aasman Aisa Nahin Tha Aur Zamin Aisi Na Thi. Nowhere life was roofless,homeless like that, Neither was sky nor was land like that. हम बिछड़ने से हुए गुमराह वर्ना इस से क़ब्ल, मेरा दामन तर न थ...

Soulmates

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This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 50 ; the fiftieth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. In association with ​Soulmates: Love without ownership by Vinit K Bansal . To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton . Soulmates They say that couples are made in heaven. But they forget that they are united in this world only if circumstances favors them. True soulmates are either those who come victorious from the test of time or those who succumbs to it. This poem is a story of one such couple. "Your love makes my life complete In next life ,this cycle I want to repeat. It feels good....satisfying and great. that you are my soulmate. " Every time he read her these words, all his wounds were stirred. He always thought why that girl his wife with whom he promised to spend his life betrayed his trust and earned his disgust. "When I walked down memory lan...

Tu Main,Main Tu Ho Gaya

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तू मै,मै तू हो गया।(You Became I,I Became You) "मन तू शुदम तू मन शुदी, मन तन शुदम तू जान शुदी, ताकस न गोयद बाद अज़ीन,                         मन दिगारम तू दिगारी,"_ अमीर खुसरो  These lines of Amir Khusrow which means"I have became you,and you me,I am the body ,you soul, so that no one can say hereafter, that you are someone and me someone else," inspired me to write this poem "Tu mein mein tu ho gaya," whose first four lines are translation of above lines. तू मै ,मै तू हो गया, मै जिस्म हूँ,तू रूह मेरी, कहने को अब है क्या बचा,                                             न तू मुझसे न मै तुझसे जुदा। You became I, I became you, You are soul, I am the body, What else I would say, We are not different,we are one. मुझ पर हसी दुनिया सभी, जो तुझमें मै इतना खो गया, हस कर क्या मेरा छीना, ...