This poem was translated by Professor Carlo Coppola as part of the MULOSIGE Translations project. You can explore our collection of Urdu Poetry here.
Nayā amrit / New Nectar
In a shop medicines are arranged on the shelves;
A weak frail man is standing
In the crowd of patients;
He’s reading each and every letter
Written on a blue hunch-backed bottle.
But “P-o-i-s-o-n” is written on it.
What is this man suffering from?
What kind of remedy is this?
.
From: Ism-i aʻẓam (Name of the Greatest [God]). ʻAlīʹgaṛh: Inḍiyan Buk Hāʻūs, 1965. p. 76
In a shop medicines are arranged on the shelves;
A weak frail man is standing
In the crowd of patients;
He’s reading each and every letter
Written on a blue hunch-backed bottle.
But “P-o-i-s-o-n” is written on it.
What is this man suffering from?
What kind of remedy is this?
.
From: Ism-i aʻẓam (Name of the Greatest [God]). ʻAlīʹgaṛh: Inḍiyan Buk Hāʻūs, 1965. p. 76
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