اثر کچھ خواب کا غنچوں میں باقی ہے تو اے بلبل!نوا را تلخ تر می زن چو ذوق نغمہ کم یابی

English translation

If some slumber is lurking still in the flower buds: ‘Strike the beat harder if the taste for music is lacking’.*
* This is the first line of a verse of the famous Persian poet of India, Saiyyid Muhammad Jamal al-Din Urfi. The complete verse is as follows: Strike the beat harder if the taste for music is lacking; strike livelier the marching songs if the load is heavy.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil