Punjabi Kalam i Bahu (r)

Alternation - (Punjabi Alphabet) Chey

Punjabi (46):

Roman:

Charh channaan ton kar rushnaaee Tey Zikr karende taare hoo

Galeeaan de wich phiran nimaane Laalaan de vanjaare hoo

Shaalaa musaafir koee na theeve Kakkh jinhaan ton bhaare hoo

Taarhee maar udaa na saanoon (Hazrat Bahu ) Aseen aape uddanhaare hoo

Urdu:

English:

In these couplets, Hazrat Sultan Bahu Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe portrays the time of his Demand that he wandered and travelled for thirty years from town to town in hid Demand of Allah and the search of Murshid. In such condition of helplessness, adversity and poverty, there is no companion and friend of the Seeker. In the darkness and loneliness of night, he addresses the moon and stars which are the only companions with him at that time and says that 'O moon! You keep on giving moonlight and the stars should keep on the Commemoration. In our destiny, who are the buyers of red Spinel and Gems, it has written that we, the helpless and destitute persons have to wander in streets and towns. Then he describes the poor plight of the travelers that 'would that Allah should make none a traveler who become so weak that they become weary to carry straws even and yet they have to carry heavy burdens unwillingly. Then he addresses the people and says that 'O People! We have come to your town not to stay and spend days but we have come here in search of that shop where one can get red Spinels, gemstone and the stuff we demand. We, like a flock of migratory birds, have landed your city to take some rest. There is no need to frighten us to fly by clapping or annoying as we are ourselves ready to fly and leave'. He has written this stanza in the days of his early Demand to express his Muhabbat and Curiosity and his Dewaan e Bahu also seems to be composed in these days but the Persia books, which he wrote in his Salook and Marifat, were written when he had covered the entire Destinations of the Salook and attained Marifat and became Waasil with Allah Almighty.