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ALL WORSHIPS ARE SAME

All Worships are same but ways are different,

A Maulavi goes to Mosque and Cuckoo sings song.

Idols are kept at places of worship, Meera with Shyam,

Whatever one deserves receives that prize.

People distinguishes between Seeta, Ravana and Ram,

But in one body you can find them all.

Mud dissolves in soil, leaving all its traces,

How to recognize who is how much in anybody?

TRANSLATION OF NIDA FAZLI’S SAB KI POOJA EK SI IN ENGLISH AS ‘ALL WORSHIPS ARE SAME’ BY DR. SHAMENAZ BANO

IN THE WORLD OF MOSQUES AND TEMPLES

In the world of Mosques and Temples,

People don’t recognize me.

I come like a moon every day,

and shines like a sun in the day time.

I glitter in my mother’s jewelry,

and keep laughing hidden behind my sisters.

I am in the sweat of a labour,

I am in the raining season.

My picture is the tears of the eyes

My details are in the magic of body.

In the world of Mosques and Temples,

People don’t recognize me.

I often leave the world without living,

and goes back to sky.

I devastate everything becoming God.

TRANSLATION OF NIDA FAZLI’S ‘MASJIDON-MANDIRON KI DUNIYA MEIN’ IN ENGLISH AS ‘IN THE WORLD OF MOSQUES AND TEMPLES’ BY DR. SHAMENAZ BANO

ON FATHER’S DEATH

On Your death

I didn’t come to recite fateha

Because I know

You cannot die

Whosever had spread the news of your death

is a lair

Was it you when

A dried leaf, blown by the wind was broken

My eyes are

seized in your sight till now

Whatever I see

I think

It is the same

Your world which was based on both good and bad name

Nothing has been changed till now

Your hands

Still breathes in my fingers

Whenever I pick pen and paper to write anything

I see you sitting on my chair

Whatever blood I have in my veins

that is yours

Flows with all failures and successes

Hidden in my voices

is your mind

You are in my sickness

You are in my helplessness

Whosever had written your name on your grave

is a liar

I am buried in your grave

You are alive in me

Whenever you get time recite fateha on it.

TRANSLATION OF NIDA FAZLI’S ‘WAALID KI WAFAAT PAR’ IN ENGLISH AS ‘ON FATHER’S DEATH’ BY DR. SHAMENAZ BANO

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