This poem was translated by Professor Carlo Coppola as part of the MULOSIGE Translations project. You can explore our collection of Urdu Poetry here.
Gīt kā janam / Birth of a Song
What I am this night I will not be tomorrow;
I will say some new thing
That would strike others as mad.
My voice, which had been lost,
Will again join me after a long time.
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From: Ism-i aʻẓam (Name of the Greatest [God]). ʻAlīʹgaṛh: Inḍiyan Buk Hāʻūs, 1965. p. 41
What I am this night I will not be tomorrow;
I will say some new thing
That would strike others as mad.
My voice, which had been lost,
Will again join me after a long time.
.
From: Ism-i aʻẓam (Name of the Greatest [God]). ʻAlīʹgaṛh: Inḍiyan Buk Hāʻūs, 1965. p. 41
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