• Kiyoon ziyan kar banoon sood framosh rahoon?
  
• Fikr-e-farda na karoon mehv-e-gham-e-dosh rahoon?
  
• Naale bulbul ke sunoon aur hama tan gosh rahoon
  
• Ham navaa! mai bhi koi gul hoon ke khamosh rahoon?
  
• Jur'at aamoze miri taab-e-sukhan hai mujh ko
  
• Shikwa Allah se "khakam badahan" hai muhj ko
  

English Translation

• Why must I forever suffer loss, oblivious to gain?
  
• Why think not upon the morrow, drowned in grief for yesterday?
  
• Why must I attentive heed the nightingale's lament of pain?
  
• Fellow-bard! am I rose, condemned to silence all the way?
  
• No; the burning power of song bids me be bold and not to faint;
  
• Dust be in my mouth, but God - He is the theme of my complaint.