Arabic & Persian
Abd-ur-Rahman
Mulla Abd-ur-Rahman, of the Ghoriah Khel clan of the Mohmand tribe, lived in the village of Hazar-Khani near Peshawar. By Raverty's account he was a learned recluse who lived as a darwesh, absorbed in prayer, and he is counted among the most popular of the Afghan poets.
His odes, collected in a Diwan after his death, are religious and moral in character and chiefly concern divine love in the Sufi manner. Raverty notes their fiery energy and natural simplicity; he places the poet as a young man during Khushhal Khan's last years, and one poem refers to events of 1711.
Poems (36)
- I: Behold! such an Omnipotent Being is my God
- II: My weeping for the beloved hath passed beyond…
- III: There is no return for thee, a second…
- IV: No one hath proved any of the world's…
- V: If one seek a charmer in the world…
- VI: The godly are the light and the refulgence…
- VII: Come, do not be the source of trouble…
- VIII: He hath obtained happiness and felicity in this…
- IX: Consider not the wise of this world shrewd…
- X: Since thou passest thy days in jollity, and…
- XI: In this world, the countenance of the beloved…
- XII: From how long since am I a purchaser…
- XIII: If I say aught regarding separation, what shall…
- XIV: The garden of existence will not bloom for…
- XV: This is the adored one--that is the rival
- XVI: So fast our friends depart unto the grave
- XVII: At times the body burneth from heat; sometimes…
- XVIII: When the black eye-lashes become submerged in the…
- XIX: I am ever sitting, with heart dried up…
- XX: The fair face turneth like unto a smoky…
- XXI: He who placeth any hope upon the fabric…
- XXII: If any one should account me an ascetic…
- XXIII: Where the lips of the beloved? where affliction…
- XXIV: Though kings and princes have made their exit…
- XXV: The chiefs and the monarchs of the world
- XXVI: My black eyes have turned white, from the…
- XXVII: Whomsoever one's own affections have made abject, contemptible…
- XXVIII: Would to heaven that I were the dust…
- XXIX: If this, thy heart's affection, be bestowed upon…
- XXX: Though they may have been a hundred times…
- XXXI: The face of the beloved, the sun, and…
- XXXII: Thy fair face, and thy musky mole, are…
- XXXIII: If there be any essential duty in this…
- XXXIV: There is a different scar branded upon every…
- XXXV: That friend, who is false and faithless, is…
- XXXVI: In the name of that Deity of mine…