Click here for background and on any passage for word meanings and explanatory discussion. ram krishn muztar (1927-1984) buland shahr. He was adopted by a childless uncle and aunt, but they died while he was still very young. He did not have much interest in being a landlord and lost inherited lands to squatters but did his undergraduate in faarsi (with honours) from punjab university with further education from the Iranian Cultural House in dehli, in the late 1950s. Worked for milaap, dehli, an urdu daily newspaper/magazine.
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mohabbat ki sham’eN¹ farozaaN² karuNga
zamaan-o-makaaN³ ko daraKhshaaN⁴ karuNga    1.lamps 2.lit up, shining 3.time and place 4.brilliant
I will light lamps of love. I will make every place shine for all time to come.
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maiN ab itni sham’eN¹ farozaaN² karuNga
keh manzil³ ba manzil charaaGhaaN⁴ karuNga    1.lamps 2.light up 3.stage along the path to the destination 4.lit with lamps
I will light up so many lamps that every stage along the path to the destination will be lit.
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zamaane¹ ke in ghor² tariikiyoN³ meN
charaaGhaaN⁴ karuNga, charaaGhaaN karuNga    1.present times 2.thick 3.darkness 4.lighted lamps
I will place lighted lamps in the thick darkness of the times.
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zamaan-o-makaaN¹ ko, zamaan-o-makaaN ko
daraKhshaaN² karuNga, daraKhshaaN karuNga   1.time and place 2.light up
I will light up all corners of space for all time to come.
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ye pur-haul¹ raaheN², ye taariik³ aalam⁴
maiN in manziloN⁵ meN charaaGhaaN⁶ karuNga   1.frightful 2.pathways 3.dark 4.world 5.places 6.lighted lamps
I will place lighted lamps in frightful pathways of this dark world.
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qasam¹ tere Gham ki maiN ab zindagi² ko
Ghazal KhwaaN o shaadaaN³ o raqsaaN⁴ karuNga    1.swear by, promise to 2.life 3.happy 4.dancing
I swear by the pain of living that I will make life sing Ghazal, be happy and dance with joy.
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badalna paRega nizaam¹-e gulistaaN²
maiN ab inqelaab³-e gulistaaN karuNga   1.order, the way things work 2.garden, world, homeland 3.revolution
World order must be changed. I will bring about a revolution in the world.
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naii ziist¹ ke mashvaroN² se murattib³
naya ek aaiin⁴-e dauraaN⁵ karuNga    1.life 2.suggestions, advice 3.made of, shaped by 4.tradition, rules 5.present times
Shaped by the advice of a new way of life, I will promulgate a new tradition/rules.
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balandi¹ pe pahuNcha ke insaaN ko muztar²
maiN nazzaara³-e auj⁴-e insaaN karuNga   1.heights 2.pen-name of the poet 3.witness, see 4.peak, climax
Taking humanity to great heights, O muztar, I will experience the peak of human-ness.