ali sardar jafri (1913-2000), balrampur, gonDa, U.P. Religious upbringing and education.  MA luckhnow university. Started composing at 15.  He soon turned to progressive, revolutionary nazm/Ghazal.  Member Communist Party.  Arrested in 1940.  Plays, short stories, movies and TV serials gave him a career in mumbaii. Padma Shri in 1967.  ali sardar jafri wrote this in response to a poem “dosti ka haath” by ahmad faraaz (from pakistan) which he recited at a mushaa’era in India, in which he extended his hand of friendship.  The last stanza in this poem is borrowed from another one of sardar jafri’s nazms and repeated/inserted here, not an uncommon practice.
1
tumhaara haath baRha hai jo dosti ke liye
mere liye hai vo ik yaar-e Gham-gusaar¹ ka haath
vo haath shaaKh-e gulshan-e tamanna² hai
mahak³ raha hai mere haath meN bahaar ka haath

1.friend sharing sorrow (of injustice) 2.desire 3.fragrance

Your hand extended in friendship is the hand of a friend who shares the sorrows of injustice/wars/separation.  It is like a bough fragrant with flowers in the garden of desire (of friendship).
2
Khuda kare ki salaamat¹ raheN ye haath apne
ata² hue hain jo zulfeN³ saNvaarne ke liye
zamiN se naqsh⁴ miTaane ko zulm o nifrat⁵ ka
falak⁶ se chaand sitare utarne ke liye

1.flourish 2.granted 3.hair, tresses 4.signs 5.cruelty and hatred 6.sky

May these hands flourish, these hands that were made to caress the hair of the beloved, to erase all signs of cruelty and hatred and to bring down moons and stars from the sky.
3
zamin-e-paak¹ hamaare jigar² ka TukRa hai
hameN aziiz³ hai dehli o lucknow ki tarah
tumhaare lahje⁴ meN meri navaa⁵ ka lahja hai
tumhaara dil hai hasiiN meri aarzu⁶ ki tarah

1.pure land, Pakistan 2.liver, considered the seat of life 3.beloved 4.accent 5.voice 6.desire

“jigar ka TukRa” is an expression used for a much loved child or sibling.  Pakistan is beloved to us too just like our own Dehli and Lucknow.  Your accent has the same sound as mine, your heart is beautiful just like my own desire (of love).
4
kareN ye ahd¹ ki auzaar-e jung² jitne haiN
unheN miTana hai aur Khaak meN milana hai
kareN ye ahd ki arbab-e-jung³ haiN jitne
unheN sharaafat o insaaniyat sikhaana hai

1.promise, resolve 2.tools of war 3.lords of war

Let us determine that we should destroy all weapons of war and teach humanity and gentleness to all lords of war.
5
ji’eN tamaam hasinaan¹-e-Khaibar-o-lahore
jieN tamaam javanaan-e jannat-e kashmir
ho lab pe naGhma-e mahr o vafa² taabaani³
kitab-e dil pe faqat⁴ harf-e ishq⁵ ho tahrir⁶

1.beauties 2.love and faith 3.brilliance 4.only 5.word(s) of love 6.written

May the beauties of Khaibar and Lahore live long.  May the youth of the paradise of Kashmir live long.  Let us only have the brilliance of the song of love and faith on our lips, only words of love written on the page of our hearts.
6
tum aaao gulshan-e lahore se chaman¹ bardosh²
ham aaeN subh-e banaras ki raushni le kar
himalaya ki havaaoN ki tazagi le kar
phir us ke baad ye puchheN ke kaun dushman hai

1.garden, flowers 2.on the shoulder

You come bearing flowers from the gardens of Lahore.  We will bring the brilliance of the dawn of Benaras, the freshness of the breeze of the Himalayas and then we will ask, “who is the enemy?”