بہشت

کجا این روزگاری شیشہ بازیبہشت این گنبد گردون ندارد

This world of ours is full of a strange jugglery. Heaven does not have this kind of a revolving sky.

ندیدہ درد زندان یوسف اوزلیخایش دل نالان ندارد

Its Joseph is a stranger to imprisonment; and its Zuleikha’s heart does not know how to cry.

خلیل او حریف آتشے نیستکلیمش یک شرر در جان ندارد

Its Abraham has not been cast into a fire; its Moses does not have a live spark in his soul.

بہ صرصر در نیفتد زورق اوخطر از لطمۂ طوفان ندارد

Its barque has never had to cope with stormy winds, and never has been tossed about by seas that roll.

یقین را در کمین بوک و مگر نیستوصال اندیشۂ ہجران ندارد

There cetainty has never been assailed by doubt. There union is not plagued by separation’s fear.

کجا آن لذت عقل غلط سیراگر منزل رہ پیچان ندارد

How can you have the joy of straying from the path, if the path that you have to tread is fixed and clear.

مزی اندر جھانی کور ذوقیکہ یزدان دارد و شیطان ندارد

Never live in a world devoid of joy and zest, where God exists, but Beelzebub does not exist.