زندگانی کی حقیقت کوہکن کے دل سے پوچھجوئے شیر و تیشہ و سنگ گراں ہے زندگی

English translation

Ask the mountain digger for the reality of life; the canal of milk, the axe, the heavy rock is life.*
(Heavy rock: Reference to Farhad in the epic of love known as ‘Shirin O Farhad’. Farhad is known as ‘mountain digger’ because he successfully dug a canal through a mountain and filled it with milk in compliance with a requirement for getting the hand of Shirin, his beloved.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

کوہکن: پہاڑ کھودنے والا، مراد ہے فرہاد۔جوئے شير: دودھ کی نہر۔سنگ گراں: بھاری پتھر۔