HALI:
"JUSTICE FOR THE SILENT" (1905) |
STANZA TWO |
duusraa
band |
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1a) in your parents' house, although you
were ruler and chief over the whole house |
maike
me;N saare ghar kii thii;N go maalik-o-mu;xtaar tum |
| 2a) at the orders of mother and father, you
kept going around like a puppet 2b) you remained a sympathizer with fathers, a follower of mothers |
maa
baa; ke ;hukmo;N pah putlii kii :tara;h phirtii rahii;N ;Gam;xvaar baapo;N kii rahii;N maa))o;N kii taaba((daar tum |
| 3a) the whole day cooking, food-making, sewing,
needle-threading, stitching 3b) you never by any means sat in your father's house idle |
din
bhar pakaanaa rii;Ndhnaa siinaa paronaa ;Taa;Nknaa bai;Thii;N nah ghar par baap ke ;xaalii kabhii zinhaar tum |
| 4a) at night, you got up repeatedly and checked
on little brothers and sisters 4b) if a child would cry in its sleep, or you were awakened in some other way |
raato;N
ko chho;Te bhaa))ii bahno;N kii ;xabar u;Th u;Th ke lii bachchah ko))ii sote me;N ro yaa aur hu))ii;N bedaar tum |
| 5a) when you arrived at your in-laws' house,
you saw there another world 5b) as if you had all at once stepped from your country into another country [the tashdiid on uttarii;N is necessary for the meter] |
susraal
me;N pahu;Nchii to vaa;N ik duusraa dekhaa jahaa;N jaa uttarii;N go des se pardes me;N ik baar tum |
| 6a) [*urdu 3*]
there, the concern at every moment was that no one should be unhappy with
you 6b) that you would never find there the effects of anyone's displeasure with you |
vaa;N
fikr thii har dam yihii naa-;xvush nah ho tum se ko))ii apne se ranjish ke kabhii paa))o nah vaa;N aa;saar tum |
7a) that the husband's look wouldn't change,
that the father-in-law's heart wouldn't be darkened |
badle
nah shauhar kii na:zar susre kaa dil mailaa nah ho aa;Nkho;N me;N saas aur nand kii kha;Tko nah mi;sl-e ;xaar tum |
| 8a) if your lot would fall among bad ones,
if all, great and small, would be ill-tempered 8b) don't let your forehead darken/frown, although at heart you are disaffected |
paalaa
buro;N se gar pa;Re bad;xuu ho;N sab chho;Te ba;Re chitvan pah mail aane nah do go dil me;N ho bezaar tum |
| 9a) keep giving the lie to
grief in your in-laws' house, laughing and talking 9b) like swallows of sherbet, keep drinking the blood of the liver [=enduring misery] |
;Gam
ko ;Gala:t kartii raho susraal me;N ha;Ns bol kar sharbat ke ghuu;N;To;N kii :tara;h pitii raho ;xuun-e jigar |
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