Bulleh Shah

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Vandaag eens iets anders, iets exotischer; Punjabi poëzie. Dit gedicht in het Punjabi is van Bulleh Shah en heeft een Engelse vertaling. Voor de liefhebbers van Urdu, Hindi en Punjabi poëzie in deze talen verwijs ik graag naar http://sadurdupoetry4u.blogspot.nl.

Bulleh Shah of  Bulla(h) Shah (1680–1757)  was een soefi dichter, humanist en filosoof. Zijn volledige naam luidt Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri. Wil je meer poëzie lezen van Belleh Shah ga dan naar http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com

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Bullah! ki jaana maen kaun

Na maen momin vich maseet aan
Na maen vich kufar diyan reet aan
Na maen paakaan vich paleet aan
Na maen moosa na pharaun.

Bullah! ki jaana maen kaun

Na maen andar ved kitaab aan,
Na vich bhangaan na sharaab aan
Na vich rindaan masat kharaab aan
Na vich jaagan na vich saun.

Bullah! ki jaana maen kaun.

Na vich shaadi na ghamnaaki
Na maen vich paleeti paaki
Na maen aabi na maen khaki
Na maen aatish na maen paun

Bullah! ki jaana maen kaun

Na maen arabi na lahori
Na maen hindi shehar nagauri
Na hindu na turak peshawri
Na maen rehnda vich nadaun

Bullah, ki jaana maen kaun

Na maen bheth mazhab da paaya
Ne maen aadam havva jaaya
Na maen apna naam dharaaya
Na vich baitthan na vich bhaun

Bullah, ki jaana maen kaun

Avval aakhir aap nu jaana
Na koi dooja hor pehchaana
Maethon hor na koi siyaana

Bulla! ooh khadda hai kaun

Bullah, ki jaana maen kaun

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Bulla, I know not who I am

Nor am I the believer in mosque
Nor am I in idol worship
Nor am in the pure or the impure
Nor am I in the Vedas
Nor am I in the intoxicants
Nor am I in the carefree deviant
Nor am I union nor grief
Nor am I in the pure/impure
Nor am I of the water nor of the land
Nor am I fire nor air
Bulla, I know not who I am

Nor am I Arabic nor from Lahore
Nor am I the Indian city of Nagaur
Nor am I Hindu nor a Peshawari turk
Nor did I create the difference of faith
Nor did I create Adam-Eve
Nor did I name myself
Beginning or end I know just the self
Do not recognise ”the other one”
There’s none wiser than I
Who is this Bulla Shah
Bulla, I know not who I am

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