Mērē Dil Mē(n) Dard Hē || محسنِ اعظم || Supreme Benefactor || Muḥsin-i Azam || Allamah Nasir Hunzai

Urdu Qaseeda : Mērē Dil Mē(n) Dard Hē Awr Mujh Ko Darmān Yād hē




Poet : Naṣīr al-Dīn Naṣīr (Hubb-i ᶜAlī) Hunzai (S.I.)


Vocals : Touseef Shah



Muḥsin-i Aᶜẓam
Supreme Benefactor

Mērē dil mēṅ dard hē awr mujh kō darmān yād hē
Jān hī mēṅ woh nihān hē mērā jānān yād hē
Pain in my heart and (its) remedy I do remember
He, my Beloved, is hidden in my very soul and I remember him

Muḥsin-i aᶜẓam kō dēkhā chashmah-yi iḥsān hē
Ġarqah-yi baḥr-i karam kō us kā iḥsān yād hē
I have seen the Supreme Benefactor, the fountain of beneficence
Drowned in the ocean of his generosity, I remember his beneficence

Salṭanat kā muddaᶜī hē har kas-ū nā-kas yahāṅ
Ay khẉushā! Woh mujh kō Sulṭān ibn-i Sulṭān yād hē
In this world all and sundry is a claimant to a kingdom
How fortunate am I! I remember the Sulṭān [and] the son of Sulṭān

ᶜIshq-i pāk-i panj-tan Salmān mēṅ ik nūr thā
Mujh kō woh nūr-i mubārak awr Salmān yād hē
The love for the five Holy Persons was a light in Salmān’s heart
I remember that blessed light and Salmān

Ḥāfiẓ-i Qur’ān nahīṅ mēṅ ᶜāshiq-i Qur’ān hūṅ
Āyah-yi Kursī mēṅ mujh kō jumlah Qur’ān yād hē
I am not a memoriser of the Qur’ān, it’s lover am I
In the āyatu’l-Kursī I remember the entire Qur’ān

Yeh ḥaqīqat hē keh awwal ᶜarsh-i Rabb pānī pah thā
Mujh kō aysā bā-karāmat ᶜarsh-i Raḥmān yād hē
True ‘tis that in the beginning the Divine Throne floated on water
Such a miraculous Throne of the Beneficent I remember

Shāh-i khūbān-i dūᶜālam paykar-i ḥusn-ū jamāl
Ism-i aᶜẓam, nūr-i aqdam, ganj-i pinhān yād hē
Sovereign of the beauties of both the worlds, the embodied elegance and beauty
I remember the Supreme Name, the eternal Light and the hidden Treasure.

Ay tajallī dar tajallī! Ay khafī andar jalī!
Āsmān-i ᶜilm-ū ḥikmat! Tērā ṭūfān yād hē
O theophany within theophany! O the hidden within the manifest!
O the heaven of knowledge and wisdom! Your deluge (of knowledge and wisdom) I do remember.