mujh se pehli si mohabbat na maang - by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Don’t ask me for the love of the years gone...

Don’t ask me for the love of the years gone...

I thought you were the lone light in this world,

With you, no sorrow of the world would ever touch me.

Your face was what gives nature her color,

And what is there to seek that I don’t find in your eyes…

And what is there to seek that I don’t find in your eyes!

If you are with me, it didn't matter if fortune frowns...

But I never for once thought this is where we come...

Countless centuries of dark cruel magic

woven in rich elaborate silk,
Flesh sold in the dark alleys everywhere,

Bodies draped in dust, bathed in blood,

My eyes turn to this now and I cannot help...

Even now your beauty touches my heart but I cannot help!

There are many other sorrows in this world besides love…

There are many other ways to find respite besides love…

Don’t ask me for the love of the years gone...

Don’t ask me for the love of the years gone...