वुसअत-ए-सई-ए-करम देख कि सर-ता-सर-ए-ख़ाक

The verses

1. वुसअत-ए-सई-ए-करम देख कि सर-ता-सर-ए-ख़ाक गुज़रे है आबला-पा अब्र-ए-गुहर-बार हुनूज़

   Meaning: Behold the boundless striving of grace: across the dust from end to end, still wanders with blistered feet the pearl-scattering cloud.

2. यक-क़लम काग़ज़-ए-आतिश-ज़दा है सफ़्हा-ए-दश्त नक़्श-ए-पा में है तब-ए-गर्मी-ए-रफ़्तार हुनूज़

   Meaning: The desert's page is all at once a sheet consumed by fire; yet in the footprint still burns the blazing fever of that speed.

3. क्यूँ हुआ था तरफ़-ए-आबला-ए-पा या-रब जादा है वा-शुदन-ए-पेचिश-ए-तूमार हुनूज़

   Meaning: Why was it partial to the blistered foot, O Lord, when the road remains the unfurling of an endless scroll?

4. हों ख़मोशी-ए-चमन हसरत-ए-दीदार 'असद' मिज़ा है शाना-कश-ए-तुर्रा-ए-गुफ़्तार हुनूज़

   Meaning: Though I am the garden's silence, yearning for a glimpse, O Asad, yet my eyelashes still comb the tangled curls of speech.