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HALI: "JUSTICE FOR THE SILENT" (1905)

STANZA FOUR meter: = = - = / = = - = / = = - = / = = - =	chauthā band
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1a) if mothers didn't look after children when they were small 1b) ages ago the world would have become empty of the race of Adam	letīñ ḳhabar aulād kī māʾeñ nah gar chhuṭpan meñ yāñ ḳhāli kabhī kā nasl se ādam kī ho jātā jahāñ

2a) [urdu 5] how would this lump of flesh flourish 2b) if the mother didn't keep the child at every moment pressed to her breast?	yih gosht kā ik lothṛā parvān chaṛhtā kis t̤araḥ chhātī se lipṭāʾe nah har dam rakhtī gar bachche ko māñ

3a) those reformers of religion and the world, through whose advice and counsel 3b) in the darkness of falsehood, the light of truth became manifest to the world	vuh dīn aur dunyā ke muṣliḥ jin ke vaʿz̤ aur pand se z̤ulmat meñ bāt̤il kī huʾā dunyā pah nūr-e ḥaq ʿayāñ

4a) those establishers of learning and wisdom, through whose creations 4b) the secrets of earth and sky became manifest in the world	vuh ʿilm aur ḥikmat ke bānī jin kī taḳhlīqāt se z̤āhir huʾe ʿālam meñ asrār-e zamīn-o-āsmāñ

5a) the realm-seizing king Alexander, through fear of whom 5b) the crown-possessors of the world were trembling like willows	bādshāh-e kishvar-gīr iskandar kih jin kī dhāk se the bed kī mānind larzāñ tājvārān-e jahāñ

6a) that pride of kings of Persia, Cyrus, whose justice, 6b) from east to west, is a story passed among people's tongues	vuh faḳhr-e shāhān-e ʿajam kasrâ kih jis ke ʿadl kī mashriq se tā maġhrib zabānoñ par hai jārī dāstāñ

7a) were not all these the flowers and fruit of those same frail plants 7b) which mothers had watered, here, with their own livers' blood?	kyā phūl phal yih sab unhīñ kamzor paudoñ ke nah the sīñchā thā māʾoñ ne jinheñ ḳhūn-e jigar se apne yāñ

8a) what pure Sufis, what divinely guided mystics 8b) what prophets, what saints, what pillars, what pole stars of the age!	kyā ṣūfiyān-e bā-ṣafā kyā ʿārifān-e bā-ḳhudā kyā anbiyā kyā auliyā kyā ġhauṡ kyā qut̤b-e zamāñ


9a) through the rulers' court however many virtuous servants have advanced 9b) they all have mounted upward through the staircase of their mothers' laps	sarkār se mālik kī jitne pāk bande haiñ baṛhe vuh māʾoñ kī godoñ ke zīne se haiñ sab ūpar chaṛhe

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