Kuch Ishq Kiya Kuch Kaam Kiya

[guywithasmirk]

Yeh ilm ka sauda yeh risalein yeh kitabein, Ek shakhs ki yaadon ko bhulane ke liye hai.

—Jaan Nisar Akhtar

[dasht-ae-tanhai]

patthar mujhe kahta hai mira chahne vaala / main mom huun us ne mujhe chhu kar nahin dekhā

[pashtoquotes-blog]

“بې زحمته راحت نشته No pleasure without labor”

— Pashto proverb, Rahmon Inomkhojayev “Pashto: An Elementary Textbook” (via polyglotted)

[covvboytears]

Michel Foucault, Madness & Civilization

[noorink94]

What's meant for you, won't pass you by.

[dil-e-be-ikhtiyaar]

Hain dalilen tere khilaf magar, sonchta hoon teri himayat me

-Jaun Elia

[not-a-nice-man-to-know]

Hum jee rahe hain koi bahane kiye bagair

Us ke bagair us ki tamanna kiye bagair

- Jaun Elia

[funeral]

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

[maihonhassan]

"mai nahi chahta wo mere bulane se aaye,mai chahta hoon woh reh na paaye aur bahane se aaye"

"I don't want them to come just because I call them; I want them to feel they can't stay away and come with their own reasons."

[sylviadastra]

Their love for one another, yes: which has survived its own death.

-Intermezzo, Sally Rooney

[aszmxm]

Then he pulled her closer to his heart and said:

Why is my happiness sad.!

[chaakjigar]

Dard se mere hai tujhko beqarari haaye haaye, Kiya hui zaalim teri ghaflat-sheari haaye haaye

Tere dil mein gar na tha aashob-e-gham ka hosla, Tu ne phir kyun ki thi meri gham-gusaari haaye haaye

Kyun meri gham-khargi ka tujhko aiya tha khayal, Dushmani apni thi meri dost-daari haaye haaye

Umr bhar ka tu ne paeman-e-wafa bandha to kiya, Umr bhar ko bhi to nahi hae paedaari haaye haaye

Zahar lagti hae mujhe aab-o-hawa-e-zindagi, Yaani tujh se thi ise nasaaz-gaari haaye haaye

Gul-fishaani hai, naz-e-jalwa ko kiya ho gaya? Khaak per hoti hae teri lalakaari haaye haaye

Sharm-e-rusawaae se ja chupna naqaab-e-khaak mein, Khatam hae ulfat ki tujh per parda-dari haaye haaye

Khaak mein namoos-e-paeman-e-muhabat mil gae, Uth gai se dunya se rah-o-rasm-e-yari haaye haaye

haath hi tegh-azma ka kaam se jaata raha dil pe ik lagne na paaya zakhm-e-kaari haaye haaye

kis tarah kaate koi shab-ha-e-tar-e-barshigal hai nazar khu-karda-e-akhtar-shumari haaye haaye

gosh mahjur-e-payam o chashm-e-mahrum-e-jamal ek dil tis par ye na-ummid-vaari haaye haaye

Ishq ne pakra na tha Ghalib abhi wehshat ka rang, Reh gaya dil mein jo kuch zauq-e-khari haaye haaye

Dard se mere hae tujhko beqarari haae haae, Kiya huwi zaalim teri ghaflat-sheari haaye haaye

–Ghalib

[wannabewritersposts]

تیرا امام بے حضور تیری نماز بے سرور

ایسی نماز سے گزر ایسے امام سے گزر

Tera Imaam be-hazoor, teri namaz be-suroor

Esi namaz se guzar, ese Imaam se guzar

—Allama Iqbal

Your Imaam is disgraceful, your namaz is without any ecstasy

Leave such an Imaam, Leave such a namaaz

[khaanahbadoshiyaan]

گر جمال یار نبود، با خیالش هم خوشم

If I cannot see her, at least I can think of her, and so be happy;

خانه درویش را شمعی به از مهتاب نیست

To light the beggar's hut, no candle is better than moonlight

- Amir Khusraw (امیر خوسرو)

[mehreenkhan]

ziist se tañg ho ai 'dāġh' to jiite kyuuñ ho

jaan pyārī bhī nahīñ jaan se jaate bhī nahīñ

Dagh Dehlvi

[nizariat]

“Do the absent ones know the taste of waiting?”

— Ahlam Mosteghanemi

[khaanahbadoshiyaan]

شام کے سائے بالشتوں سے ناپے ہیں

Every inch of the sky has been searched

چاند نے کتنی دیر لگا دی آنے میں

O how long did the moon take to emerge

- Gulzar (گلزار)