Khabar-e-Tahayyur-e-Ishq - خبرِ تحیّرِ عِشق

Farid Ayaz & Abu Muhamamd Qawwal Party

This slow and pensive rendition of " Khabar e Tahayyur-e-Ishq Sun" is one of my favorites. A new and eloquent translation has been added here by Saiyed Nizamuddin Ahmad who hails from Lucknow and is presently Assistant Prof of Arabic and Islamic Studies at The American University of Cairo.

Khabar-e-tahayyur-e-ishq sun

Khabar-e-tahayyur-e-ishq sun na junuu.N rahaa na parii rahii 
na to tuu rahaa na to mai.n rahaa, jo rahii so beKhabarii rahii

shaah-e-beKhudii ne ataa kiyaa mujhe ab libaas-e-barahanagii
na Khirad kii bakhiyaagarii rahii na junuu.N kii pardaadarii rahii
 
chalii simt-e-Gaib se ik havaa ki chaman zahuur kaa jal gayaa
magar ek shaaKh-e-nihaal-e-Gham jise dil kahe.n so harii rahii
 
nazar-e-taGaaful-e-yaar kaa gilaa kis zabaa.N so.n bayaa.N karuu.N
ki sharaab-e-sad-qadaah aarazuu Khum-e-dil me.n thii so bharii rahii
 
vo ajab gha.Dii thii mai.n jis gha.Dii liyaa dars-e-nusKhaa-e-ishq kaa
ki kitaab-e-aql kii taaq me.n jyuu.N dharii thii tyuu.n hii dharii rahii

tere 
josh-e-hairat-e-husn kaa asar is qadar so.n yahaa.N huaa
ki na aa_iine me.n rahii jilaa na parii kuu.N jalvaa-garii rahii

kiyaa Khaak aatish-e-ishq ne dil-e-benavaa-e-"Siraj" ko.n
na Khatar 
rahaa na hazar rahaa magar ek beKhatarii rahii
  ~ 
Siraj Aurangabadi

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trans: Divana Nakujabadi [Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad]

The Tale of Love’s Perplexity (khabar-e tahayyur-e 'ishq)

[1] Hearken to the tale of Love’s [metaphysical] perplexity:

neither the ardour of madness remained,

neither the angelic beloved remained;

Neither did thou remain, neither did I remain,

only [undifferentiated] unawareness remained.

[2] The Shah of no-self-ness has now bestowed upon me

the garment of nakedness;

Neither the stitching of reason remained,

neither the veiling of madness’ ardour remained.

[3] A wind blew from the threshold of the unseen,

and the garden of bliss was consumed.

Yet, but a branch of the tree of sorrow

―known as the heart― green remained.

[4] With which tongue am I to recount the indifference of the beloved?

Desire akin to the wine of a hundred goblets brimmed up

in the vessel of the heart yet, therein remained.

[5] What a marvelous instant it was that I learned of the elixir of Love!

The book of reason placed on the shelf,

on the shelf remained.

[6] The intensity of the perplexity of your beauty,

was so brilliantly revealed, that

neither the mirror’s shine remained,

neither the angelic beloved’s beauty remained.

[7] The fire of love has reduced the mute heart of Siraj to ashes,

neither fright remained,

nor caution remained,

only

fearlessness

remained.

Siraj Awrangabadi (1715–1763 CE)

Source: http://qawwal.blogspot.com/search/label/Siraj%20Aurangabad

Translated by Divana Nakujabadi [Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad]