Kūvān

Majeed Amjad

Kūvaan chal rahaa hai! Magar khet sukhe paṛe hein — naa faslein, naa khirman, naa daanaa, naa shaakhon kī baahein, naa phulon ke mukhṛe, naa kalīyon ke maathe, naa ruth kī javaanī guzartaa hai, kyaaron ke pyaase kinaaron ko yūn chīr ta tez khūn rang paanī ke jis tara zakhmon kī dukhtī tapaktī tehon mein kisī neshtar kī ravaanī

Idhar dhīrī  dhīrī 

Kūvein kī nafīrī   

Hai cheṛe chalī jaa rahī aik taraanaa

Purasraar gaanaa

Jise sun kar raqsaan hai andhe, thake haare, bejaan bailon kaa joṛaa bichaaraa

Giraan baar zanjīren, bhaarī salaasil, kaṛakte hūe aatishen taazyaane 

Tavīl aur laamuntahī raaste par bichaa rakhe hein daam apne qazaa ne 

Idhar vo musībat ke saathī milaae hūe sīngon se sīng, shaanon se shaane 

Ravaan hein naa jaane 

Kidhar? Kis ṭhikaane?

Naa rukne kī taab aur naa chalne kaa yaaraa

Muqadar nayaaraa

Kūvein vaalaa, gaadī pe leṭaa hai mast apnī bansī kī mīṭhī surīlī sadaa mein

Kahīn khet sūkhaa paṛaa reh gayaa aur naa us tak kabī aaī paanī kī baarī 

Kahīn beh gein aik hī tundrele kī fayaaz lehron mein kiyaarī ki kiyaarī 

Kahīn ho gein dhūl mein dhūl laakhon, rangaa rang faslein, samardaar saarī

Pareshaan pareshaan,

Gurezaan Gurezaan,

Taṛaptī hein khusbūen daam-e-havaa mein 

Nizaam-e-fanaa mein 

Aur aik naghmaa sarmadī kaan mein aa rahaa hein, musalsal kūvaan chal rahaa hai

Piyaa pe magar narm rū is kī raftaar, peham magar be-takaan is kī gardish 

Adam se azal tak, azal se abad tak, badaltī nahī aik aan us kī gardish 

Naa jaane līye apne dolaab kī aastīnon mein kitne jahaan us kī gardish 

Ravaan hai ravaan hai

Tapaan hai tapaan hai

Ye chakar yun hī jaawidaan chal rahaa hai

Kūvaan chal rahaa hai