Canto l’arme pietose, e ’l Capitano
Che ’l gran sepolcro liberò di Cristo.
Molto egli oprò col senno e con la mano;
Molto soffrì nel glorioso acquisto:
E invan l’Inferno a lui s’oppose; e invano
s’armò d’Asia e di Libia il popol misto:
Chè ’l Ciel gli diè favore, e sotto ai santi
Segni ridusse i suoi compagni erranti.
The sacred armies, and the godly knight,
That the great sepulchre of Christ did free,
I sing; much wrought his valor and foresight,
And in that glorious war much suffered he;
In vain 'gainst him did Hell oppose her might,
In vain the Turks and Morians armèd be:
His soldiers wild, to brawls and mutines prest,
Reducèd he to peace, so Heaven him blest.
اج آکھاں وارث شاہ نوں، کتھوں قبراں وچوں بول
تے اج کتابِ عشق دا کوئی اگلا ورقہ پَھول
اک روئی سی دھی پنجاب دی، تُوں لکھ لکھ مارے بین
اج لکھاں دھیاں روندیاں، تینوں وارث شاہ نوں کہن
اُٹھ درد منداں دیا دردیا، اُٹھ ویکھ اپنا پنجاب
اج بیلے لاشاں وچھیاں تے لہو دی بھری چناب
Today, I call Waris Shah, "Speak from your grave,"
And turn to the next page in your book of love,
Once, a daughter of Punjab cried and you wrote an entire saga,
Today, a million daughters cry out to you, Waris Shah,
Rise! O’ narrator of the grieving! Look at your Punjab,
Today, fields are lined with corpses, and blood fills the Chenab.
PERSIAN زلف آشفته و خوی کرده و خندان لب و مست
پیرهن چاک و غزل خوان و صراحی در دست
TRANSLITERATION
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LITERAL TRANSLATION
Hair tousled, perspiring, smiling-lipped, and drunk,
shirt torn, singing songs, and wine-flask in hand
FORMAL PARAPHRASE
Hair a right mess, in a haze, sweltering, lips smiling, and pissed,
Shirt in new tatters with brash singing of songs, flagon in fist
