اې چې عاشق یې په اشنا باندې
نور نظر مه کړه په هیڅ چا باندې
ay chi ʿāshiq yi pa ashnā bāndi
nor nazar ma kṛa pa hīts chā bāndi
You who are a lover of the Friend,
look on no one else.
هر چې عاشق شي د دلبر په جمال
غم شو شیرین لکه حلوا باندې
har chi ʿāshiq shi da dilbar pa jamāl
gham shaw shīrīn laka halwā bāndi
Whoever becomes a lover of the Beloved's beauty,
grief turns sweet to him as halwa.
د دې شعر په اړه
The first two couplets of a long ghazal with the refrain bandi, which Rashad prints with its scansion as an example of aruz in Pashto. Translation ours. Print and OCR differ in one word of line 4 (shaw/sha), so a Pashto reader should confirm it.
ژباړه: Pashtunxwa
نور ولولئ: Daulat Lawanai: Roshani poet of the seventeenth century