Ahmad Faraz Quotes

And they sat before each other, all their wrongs between them, and Faraz wondered if this might be something akin to what love was, in that whatever was said, no one left the room.

Don’t waste your precious time in worrying about someone taking your place. You know God has already planned something for you. Focus on your job and you will reach the place you deserve!

I Cannot Remember I once was a poet too (you gave life to my words), but now I cannot remember Since I have forgotten you (my love!), my art too I cannot remember Yesterday consulting my heart, I learned that your hair, lips, mouth, I cannot remember In the city of the intellect insanity is silence But now your sweet, spontaneous voice, its fluidity, I cannot remember Once I was unfamiliar with wrecking balls and ruins But now the cultivation of gardens, I cannot remember Now everyone shops at the store selling arrows and quivers But neglects his own body, the client he cannot remember Since time has brought me to a desert of such arid forgetfulness Even your name may perish; I cannot remember In this narrow state of being, lacking a country, even the abandonment of my fellow countrymen, I cannot remember

Come Come, even with anguish, even to torture my heart; Come, even if only to abandon me to torment again. Come, if not for our past commerce, Then to faithfully fulfill the ancient barbaric rituals. Who else can recite the reasons for our separation? Come, despite your reluctance, to continue the litanies, the ceremony. Respect, even if only a little, the depth of my love for you; Come, someday, to offer me consolation as well. Too long you have deprived me of the pathos of longing; Come again, my love, if only to make me weep. Till now, my heart still suffers some slight expectation; So come, snuff out even the last flickering torch of hope

There is no end to what God will take from you, Rozina thought, as the people of the Mohalla waited for Mina to give up, to submit to the vastness of her loss—so that they might return to whatever it was they had been doing before.

Life is going to give you things that you deserve instead of what you plan or want. Always thank God for your profits and losses. Because God plans best for us.

सुना है लोग उसे आँख भर के देखते हैं सो उस के शहर में कुछ दिन ठहर के देखते हैं सुना है रब्त है उस को ख़राब-हालों से सो अपने आप को बरबाद कर के देखते हैं सुना है दर्द की गाहक है चश्म-ए-नाज़ उस की सो हम भी उस की गली से गुज़र के देखते हैं सुना है उस को भी है शेर ओ शाइरी से शग़फ़ सो हम भी मो'जिज़े अपने हुनर के देखते हैं सुना है बोले तो बातों से फूल झड़ते हैं ये बात है तो चलो बात कर के देखते हैं सुना है रात उसे चाँद तकता रहता है सितारे बाम-ए-फ़लक से उतर के देखते हैं सुना है दिन को उसे तितलियाँ सताती हैं सुना है रात को जुगनू ठहर के देखते हैं सुना है हश्र हैं उस की ग़ज़ाल सी आँखें सुना है उस को हिरन दश्त भर के देखते हैं सुना है रात से बढ़ कर हैं काकुलें उस की सुना है शाम को साए गुज़र के देखते हैं सुना है उस की सियह-चश्मगी क़यामत है सो उस को सुरमा-फ़रोश आह भर के देखते हैं सुना है उस के लबों से गुलाब जलते हैं सो हम बहार पे इल्ज़ाम धर के देखते हैं सुना है आइना तिमसाल है जबीं उस की जो सादा दिल हैं उसे बन-सँवर के देखते हैं सुना है जब से हमाइल हैं उस की गर्दन में मिज़ाज और ही लाल ओ गुहर के देखते हैं सुना है चश्म-ए-तसव्वुर से दश्त-ए-इम्काँ में पलंग ज़ाविए उस की कमर के देखते हैं सुना है उस के बदन की तराश ऐसी है कि फूल अपनी क़बाएँ कतर के देखते हैं वो सर्व-क़द है मगर बे-गुल-ए-मुराद नहीं कि उस शजर पे शगूफ़े समर के देखते हैं बस इक निगाह से लुटता है क़ाफ़िला दिल का सो रह-रवान-ए-तमन्ना भी डर के देखते हैं सुना है उस के शबिस्ताँ से मुत्तसिल है बहिश्त मकीं उधर के भी जल्वे इधर के देखते हैं रुके तो गर्दिशें उस का तवाफ़ करती हैं चले तो उस को ज़माने ठहर के देखते हैं किसे नसीब कि बे-पैरहन उसे देखे कभी कभी दर ओ दीवार घर के देखते हैं कहानियाँ ही सही सब मुबालग़े ही सही अगर वो ख़्वाब है ताबीर कर के देखते हैं अब उस के शहर में ठहरें कि कूच कर जाएँ 'फ़राज़' आओ सितारे सफ़र के देखते हैं

sunā hai log use aañkh bhar ke dekhte haiñ so us ke shahr meñ kuchh din Thahar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai rabt hai us ko ḳharāb-hāloñ se so apne aap ko barbād kar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai dard kī gāhak hai chashm-e-nāz us kī so ham bhī us kī galī se guzar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai us ko bhī hai sher o shā.irī se shaġhaf so ham bhī mo.ajize apne hunar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai bole to bātoñ se phuul jhaḌte haiñ ye baat hai to chalo baat kar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai raat use chāñd taktā rahtā hai sitāre bām-e-falak se utar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai din ko use titliyāñ satātī haiñ sunā hai raat ko jugnū Thahar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai hashr haiñ us kī ġhazāl sī āñkheñ sunā hai us ko hiran dasht bhar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai raat se baḌh kar haiñ kākuleñ us kī sunā hai shaam ko saa.e guzar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai us kī siyah-chashmagī qayāmat hai so us ko surma-farosh aah bhar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai us ke laboñ se gulāb jalte haiñ so ham bahār pe ilzām dhar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai aa.ina timsāl hai jabīñ us kī jo saada dil haiñ use ban-sañvar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai jab se hamā.il haiñ us kī gardan meñ mizāj aur hī laal o guhar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai chashm-e-tasavvur se dasht-e-imkāñ meñ palañg zāviye us kī kamar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai us ke badan kī tarāsh aisī hai ki phuul apnī qabā.eñ katar ke dekhte haiñ vo sarv-qad hai magar be-gul-e-murād nahīñ ki us shajar pe shagūfe samar ke dekhte haiñ bas ik nigāh se luTtā hai qāfila dil kā so rah-ravān-e-tamannā bhī Dar ke dekhte haiñ sunā hai us ke shabistāñ se muttasil hai bahisht makīñ udhar ke bhī jalve idhar ke dekhte haiñ ruke to gardisheñ us kā tavāf kartī haiñ chale to us ko zamāne Thahar ke dekhte haiñ kise nasīb ki be-pairahan use dekhe kabhī kabhī dar o dīvār ghar ke dekhte haiñ kahāniyāñ hī sahī sab mubālġhe hī sahī agar vo ḳhvāb hai tābīr kar ke dekhte haiñ ab us ke shahr meñ Thahreñ ki kuuch kar jaa.eñ 'farāz' aao sitāre safar ke dekhte haiñ

The Eager Traveler Even in the torture chamber, I was the lucky one; When each lottery was over, unaccountably I had won. And even the mightiest rivers found accessible refuge in me; Though I was called an arid desert, I turned out to be the sea. And how sweetly I remember you, oh, my wild, delectable love — Like the purest white blossoms, on talented branches above. And while I’m half-convinced that folks adore me in this town, Still, all the hands I kissed held knives and tried to shake me down. You lost the battle, my coward friend, my craven enemy, When, to victimize my lonely soul, you sent a despoiling army. Lost in the wastelands of vast love, I was an eager traveler, Like a breeze in search of your fragrance, a vagabond explorer.

Don’t waste your energy & time on things you cannot change, instead pray & change your luck.

farāz' apne sivā hai kaun terā tujhe tujh se judā dekhā na jaa.e