1.
Ye jo meelon lakeerein si nazar aati hain
sahara mein
Safarnama hawa ka ret ki chadar pe likkha
hai.
These which are like lines seen in desert
Travelogue of wind is written on the sheet of sand.
2.
Shakeel kaun mere tajurbon ki qadra kare
Mera khayal akela meri nazar tanha.
Shakeel, who will care of my experiences
My thought is unusual, my sight is incongruous.
3.
Ek rasm ada karne ko aate hain yahan log
Masjid mein bhi ab koi musalman nahin milta.
To follow a ritual, people come here
Even in mosque now, no Muslim is seen.
4.
Mohalat na di Shakeel taqazon ne waqt ke,
Socha tha uski maang sitaron se bhar
chalein.
The respite was not given by the claims of time,
Shakeel
Though I desired to fill her parting of locks with
stars.
5.
Tumhari jeet use tumse door kar degi
Nibah chaho to daanista harte rahna.
Your victory will create a distance from you
To keep the relation, continue to be defeated
deliberately.
6.
Aao jawanon badhakar chhulein in boodhon ke
paaon
Girte padhte aa hi gaye hain naye zamane
tak.
O’ youth, let’s go ahead and touch the feet of the
elders,
They have arrived the new age with tottering steps.
7.
Haj se main lautoon wo teerath se to phir
aise milein,
Aab-e-zamzam main use doon aur wo Gangajal
mujhe.
When I return from Haj, he from teerath, we should
meet as
I give him sacred water of zamzam and he gives me
Gangajal.
8.
Deta hai tasalli bhi aise ki tadap jaaoon
Ab tak na use aaya zakhmon pe dawa rakhna.
He consoles me in such a way that I get anguished,
So far, he has not come to know how to treat
wounds.
9.
Main Shakeel apni hi ik sada ki khoj mein
tha
Mil gayeen khalaon mein har sadi ki
aawazein.
Shakeel, I was in search of the voice of my own
In void, the voices of each and every century got
blended.
10.
Hum ko gumraah na kahiye ki inhin rahon se
Log manzil ka pata poochh ke humse guzare.
Don’t call us lost wayfarer, as from these ways
People went past us asking the address of the destination.
