Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Fard-e-amal Siyaah kiye jaa raha...

Fard-e-amal siyaah kiye jaa raha hoon main,
Rahmat ko bepanaah kiye jaa raha hoon main.
[By Jigar Moradabadi]

Blackening life's canvas of deeds to the extreme,
It is I who expand divine compassion to the limitless.
[Interpretive translation by Siyaah]

Jigar is one of my favorites. Some more on him with translations soon...

2 comments:

Smriti said...

I have not read Jigar Moradabadi's work , but these lines have left me spellbound ..keep up the good work

Siyaah said...

smriti:

I am spellbound by these lines as well...can't seem to get them out of my mind.

Sometimes such couplets form a prism through which one continues to see the world for days and days...

thanks for visiting & commenting!