اصل عاشقن جو، سِرُ نه سانڍڻُ ڪمُ؛

 

Shah Abdul Latif Poetry

اصل عاشقن جو، سِرُ نه سانڍڻُ ڪمُ؛ 

سَؤ سِسِنئان اَڳَرو، سَندو دوسان دمُ؛

هِيُ هڏو ۽ چمُ پِڪَ پِريان جِيَ نه پَڙي

(شاھ عبداللطيف)

To guard and to preserve the head, 

the lover's business is not this--- 

One of beloved's glance is worth 

so many hundreds head of his--- 

Flesh, skin and bone, and all there is , 

the 'least ' of loved-one , equals not.

(Translated in verse by Elsa Kazi)