سفر بہ غزنی و زیارت مزار حکیم سنائی

از نوازشہای سلطان شہیدصبح و شامم، صبح و شام روز عید

By the favour of the martyred King, my mornings and evenings were as pleasant as those of Eid.

نکتہ سنج خاوران ہندی فقیرمیہمان خسرو کیوان سریر

Bar of the East, the Indian faqir, was guest unto that monarch with Saturn as throne.

تا ز شہر خسروی کردم سفرشد سفر بر من سبکتر از حضر

Ever since I moved from the royal city, travelling became lighter for me than sojourn.

سینہ بگشادم بہ آن بادی کہ پارلالہ رست از فیض او در کوہسار

I opened my breast to the breeze by which tulips had sprung up the past year in the mountains.

آہ غزنی آن حریم علم و فنمرغزار شیر مردان کہن

Alas! Ghazni, the home of learning and art, the hunting ground of lion-hunters of yore;

دولت محمود را زیبا عروساز حنا بندان او دانای طوس

A beautiful bride of Mahmud’s realm, of whose henna-dyed adorners one was the Sage of Tus.

خفتہ در خاکش حکیم غزنویاز نوای او دل مردان قوے

In it resting in eternal sleep the Ghaznavid sage too by whose voice the hearts of men grew strong.

آن "حکیم غیب"، آن صاحب مقام"ترک جوش" رومی از ذکرش تمام

That seer of the unseen, man of high station by whose iteration Rumi’s passion rose to a climax.

من ز پیدا او ز پنھان در سرورہر دو را سرمایہ از ذوق حضور

I exulted in the Present, he exulted in the Hidden, both having their wherewithal from zest for the sight of sights.

او نقاب از چہرہ ایمان گشودفکر من تقدیر مومن وانمود

He raised the veil from the face of Faith and my thought indicated the destiny of a believer.

ہر دو را از حکمت قرآن سبقاو ز حق گوید من از مردان حق

Both learnt their lesson from Qur’anic Wisdom. He speaks of God while I speak of godly folk.

در فضای مرقد او سوختمتا متاع نالہ ئی اندوختم

I felt afire in the tomb’s atmosphere to such an extent that I became apprized of a cry.

گفتم اے بینندۂ اسرار جانبر تو روشن این جہان و آن جہان

I said to him ‘O you seer of the secrets of life, both this world and the other luminous to you;

عصر ما وارفتۂ آب و گل استاہل حق را مشکل اندر مشکل است

Our age is infatuated by material things symbolised by water and clay, which raises problems without end for those godly.

مومن از افرنگیان دید آنچہ دیدفتنہ ہا اندر حرم آمد پدید

Leave aside what the believers suffered at the hands of Western nations, there have sprung up so many mischiefs in the Harem even.

تا نگاہ او ادب از دل نخوردچشم او را جلوۂ افرنگ برد

Since the believers sight was not disciplined by the heart, the glamour of the West bewitched his eyes.

اے "حکیم غیب"، امام عارفانپختہ از فیض تو خام عارفان

O you seer of the hidden, leader of the knowing once, by whose beneficence the rawness of the seers became mature;

آنچہ اندر پردۂ غیب است گویبو کہ آب رفتہ باز آید بجوی

Whatever is there hidden behind the veil, let me know; may he the wave once past should come back in the stream.