| Your quest is my objective, as long as I live, |
| Of you alone I talk, while I have a tongue. |
| God knows how it all may end, |
| Impatient am I, intemperate he. |
| For you alone I yearn, if yearn at all, |
| You are my desire, if I harbour one. |
| Much have I travelled in the garden of this world, |
| Peerless is the flower of friendship in its scent and hue. |
| A blessing is the sense of sight, the sight of friends a boon, |
| You and I will cease to be, once our eyes are shut. |
| Who else, o Dard, should my eyes accost? |
| He alone is present wheresoever I look. |
| The original ghazal: |
| Mera ji hai jab tak teri justju hai, |
| Zabaan jab talak hai yehi guftgoo hai. |
| Khuda jane kya hoga anjaam is ka, |
| Main besabar itna hun woh tund khu hai. |
| Tamanna hai teri agar hai tamanna, |
| Teri aarzoo hai, agar aarzoo hai. |
| Kiya sair ham ne gulzaar-e-duniya, |
| Gul-e-dosti mein ajab rang-o-boo hai. |
| Ghanimat hai yeh deed wa deed-e-yaarraan, |
| Jahan mund gayi aankh, mein hun na tu hai. |
| Nazar mere dil ki pari Dard kis par, |
| Jidhar dekhta hun wohi rubroo hai. |