بہ ضرب تیشہ بشکن بیستون راکہ فرصت اندک و گردون دو رنگ استحکیمان را درین اندیشہ بگذارشرر از تیشہ خیزد یا ز سنگ است

English translation

With battle axe smite the Bistoon Mountain, the time is short trust on sky too in vain.
Leave the wise men thus in their headaches own, did the spark raised from the axe or from stone?*
* Farhad had taken a pledge with the King of Persia to dig a canal from Baistoon Mountain against which the King pledged to marry his daughter (princess) with him. There was a long controversy amongst Persian historians, poets or phillosophers whether Farhad was killed by his own axe or from a stone rolling from the mountain top. The readers would find a hint of that controversy in the above mentioned quatrain (twin couplet).

Translated by Q.A. Kabir

Urdu translation

تیشے کی ضرب سے بے ستوں پہاڑ توڑ ڈال؛ کیونکہ فرصت کم ہے اور حالات کا کچھ اعتبار نہیں۔فلسفیوں کو اسی سوچ میں پڑا رہنے دے کہ چنگاری تیشہ سے نکلتی ہے یا پتھر سے۔