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Kisi ke Ghar ka aangan ujarh gaya Ache Waqtoh ka daman gujar gaya. Kin dino ke liye chula balu main Dil-e-gham toh sab hai pingal gaya. Soch-e-kadam chadar bahar hue Sab wehmo ka nasha utar gaya. Raat aur din ab sab ek hain Na janu sakoon kidhar gaya. Berang duniya, mayoos mere sabar hue, Kya hi aayoge tum, agar main guzar gaya.
A courtyard in someone’s home lies ruined, torn away; the hem of better days has worn away. For which days now should I light the stove? The grief within my heart has melted, drawn away. Thought’s feet strayed past the edge of the sheet; the drunkenness of every doubt was shorn away. Night and day are one now; I cannot tell where peace was borne away. A colourless world, my patience sunk in despair. Would you even come, if into the garden I were born away?