(Armaghan-e-Hijaz-35) Che Kafarana Qimar-e-Hayat Mee Bazi (چہ کافرانہ قمارحیات می بازی) How heretically do you play the game of life?

(14)

Che Kafarana Qimar-E-Hiyat Mee Bazi

Kh Ba Zamana Ba-Sazi Bakhud Namee Sazi

How heretically do you play the game of life? 

you adjust yourself to times, rather than to thine self.

Digar Bamadrasa Haye Haram Namee Beenam

Dil-E-Junaid-O-Nigah-E-Ghazali-O-Razi

I no longer see in the schools 

heart of Junaid and insight of Ghazali and Razi. 

Bahukam-E-Mufti-E-Azam Ke Fitrat-E-Az Leest

Badeen-E-Suawa Haraam Ast Kar-E-Shahbazi

Nature—the great lawgiver—decrees: 

the ways of falcon are forbidden in the religion of sparrows. 

Haman Faqeeh-E-Azal Guft Jurrah Shaheen Ra

Basman Garwi Baz  Mein Na Pardazi

The same heavenly law-giver decreed for the male falcon: 

fly about the skies, don’t deal with the earth. 

Manam Ke Tauba Na Kardam Zfaash Goi Haa

Zbeem-E-Ayn Ke Basultan Kunand Ghammazi

I have not left speaking the naked truth, 

though the people may speak ill of me before the kings. 

Badast-E-Ma Na Samarqand Wa Ne Bukhara Aeest

Dua Bagoz Faqeeran Ba Turk-E-Sheerazi

We have neither Samarkand nor Bukhara to offer, 

the dervish can only pray for the Shirazi Turk.