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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Translation of Qawali: Ni Me Jana Jogi De Nal


Qawali: Nee May Jana Jogi Day Naal

by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, lyrics by Bulleh Shah

Translation from Punjabi to English, by Fazeel Chauhan

Also published in 2013 on:
https://www.sikhchic.com/poetry/heer_ranjha_the_epic_lovepoem_by_bulley_shah


Going to Mecca is not the ultimate
Even if hundreds of prayers are offered

Going to River Ganges is not the ultimate
Even if hundreds of cleansings are done

Going to Gaya is not the ultimate
Even if hundreds of worships are done

Bulleh Shah, the ultimate is
When the “I” is removed from the heart

[He] read a lot and became a scholar
But [he] never read himself

[He] enters the temple and the mosque
But [he] never entered into his own heart

He fights with the devil every day for nothing
He never wrestled with his own ego

Bulleh Shah, he grabs for heavenly flying things
But doesn’t grasp the one who’s sitting at home

Religious scholars stay awake at night
But dogs too stay awake at night, higher than you

They don’t cease from barking at night
Then they sleep in yards, all higher than yours

They [dogs] don’t leave the beloved’s doorstep
Even if they’re beaten hundreds of times, higher than you

Bulleh Shah, get up and make up with the beloved
Otherwise dogs will win the contest, better than you

O friends, don’t call Ranjha a shepherd
I shy away from calling him one

I am like a thousand Heers to him
Who am I, like countless others

He’s the ruler of Hazara’s throne
And I forever the plain Heer

Bulleh Shah, may God hear my wail
That I become shepherded by the Shepherd

Ranjha became a jogi and arrived
He exchanged into a unique disguise

He changed his name from Ahad to Ahmad
I’m going to be with Jogi

Someone’s with someone else, this one’s with that one
I’m together with Jogi

Since I have become Jogi’s
I have no “I” left in me

Repeating ‘Ranjha Ranjha’
I became Ranjha

Call me Ranjha now
No one need call me Heer any more

It’s not me, it’s he himself
He amuses his own self

The one with whom I connected my heart
I became just like him, O friends

Jogi is with me
I am with Jogi
I’m together with Jogi

After putting earrings in my ears
Decorating my forehead with Tilak

Hey, he’s not [a] jogi
He’s some form of God

He’s disguised as Jogi
This jogi has attracted me

This jogi now resides in my heart
I swear by the Quran it’s true

Jogi is my belief and faith
This jogi has marked me

Hey, I belong to him
Now I’m of no value to all else

I’m floating, I’ve drifted across, O people
My eyes inter-meshed with Jogi’s, O people

Call me Jogi’s female Jogi
Heer is dead, O people

In Khayrray they talk
I have to listen to accusations

I don’t know anything about anyone else
If I know anything, I only know Jogi

No one has attained what he has attained
His shadow is on both worlds

His fame is celebrated in both worlds
His shoes were kissed by heaven

This Jogi is full of wonders
In his hand is the rosary of “There is Nothing But One God”
Hey, his name is “The One With The Shawl”

If Jogi comes to my home
All your fights will end
I will embrace him
And celebrate a million praises

Bulleh Shah, a Jogi came
To our door …

He stole away Heer of Sayal
He came in disguise


(Published October 22, 2013)

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Unfriend Me.......................................... (alternate title: You Might be a Jackass IF...)

Unfriend Me.......................................... (alternate title: You Might be a Jackass IF...)

 

I wish to lose thousands of Fakebook “friends”. If any of the following are true for you, please unfriend me. If you don’t understand what’s in this list, it clearly means you don’t know the difference between right and wrong, or don’t care about it. So unfriend me. Thanks.

 

 103 reasons to #unFriendMe 

 or

 You Might be a Jackass if...

 by Fazeel Chauhan (11-7-17 )

1) If you don’t respect other human beings 

2) If you’d rather be right, instead of: do the right thing

3) If you are a fan of Trumps

4) If you use excuses, lies and justifications to continue your bad behavior

5) If you like military rule in any part of the world

6) If you can not do justice

7) If you belong to the Republican party

8) If you like to ask people which country or neighborhood, or caste they are from so you can judge them

9) If you make stereotypes of Brown, Black, Native, Asian, White people or other groups

10) If you think saying anything against American policies is anti-American

11) If you don’t like poor people

12)  If you think personal corruption in a person’s character, is okay

13)  If you hate Muslims or Islam

14)   If you hate a group of people based on their religion or place of birth

15)  If you dehumanize and depersonalize other people

16)  If you think your religion has a monopoly on wisdom

17)  If you measure people based on how much money they have

18)  If you like to wave your flag to claim you are superior to others

19)  If you have Xenophobia, homophobia or Islamophobia

20)  If you support groups or people who are funded by the CIA

21)  If you like the policies of the American “Tea party”

22)  If you are a fan of the Bhutto politicians of Pakistan

23)  If you like to put other people down, or to make them fail

24)  If you are a supporter of the Sharif politicians of Pakistan

25)  If you are a bully, or humiliate, or make fun of other people

26)  If you are a fan of Altaf Hussain or MQM

27)  If you are a fan of “religious” politicians like Fazl-ur-Rahman

28)  If you think there is no corruption in America

29)  If you think racial profiling is good

30)  If you think you are superior to others just because of your color, religion, race, ethnicity, national origin

31)  If you think there is no corruption in Pakistan

32)  If you think that only your religion is true and others are false

33)  If you think only your religious sect is valid and other sects are fake / non-believers

34)  If you think there are no bad people among religious people

35)  If you think there are no good people among non-religious people

36)  If you blame the victim

37)  If you think that every person already has equal opportunities and there are no social factors working against individuals

38)  If you think it’s normal that there are 70 million dogs and cats in America

39)  If you think that free universal healthcare is not a human right

40)  If you think Muslims are terrorists

41)  If you believe Osama bin Laden was not created by the U.S.

42)  If you think the Mujahideen of Afghanistan were not created by the U.S. and their sons the Taliban were not trained by the U.S. 

43)  If you think Saudi Royals are holy and not corrupt

44)  If you think that Guantanamo is good

45)  If torture is okay with you

46)  If  you are against Black Lives Matter

47)  If you think sexual abuse is not common in your own community

48)  If you have a high tolerance for the misconduct of preachers

49)  If you don’t know the difference between teachers and preachers, and you support preachers more than teachers

50)  If you can not recognize fake preachers or are a fan of fake preachers like Aamir Liaqat, Nouman Ali Khan, etc

51)  If you’re a fan of Rahat Ali Khan

52)  If you like talking about fashion, and want to follow the latest fashions

53)  If you flash purses which are over $500

54)  If you don’t know the difference between right and wrong and find loop holes in the grey areas

55)  If you like to show off your money, your breasts, your status and your conquests

56)  If you use people for personal gain and then discard them

57)  If you are a poser

58)  If you think Saudi Arabia does not have social ills like rampant pornography

59)  If you don’t care about the people who are less fortunate. If you are callous

60)  If you don’t help people who are in need

61)  If you like to take selfies

62)  If you have low standards of behavior

63)  If you don’t like children

64)  If you are full of bullshit, meaning hypocrisy

65)  If you use double standards

66)  If you like to gossip about people who are not around to defend themselves

67)  If you like to kill time

68)  If you think it’s okay to spend billions on warfare instead of healthcare

69)  If you like Bollywood movies and their sexualized song and dance

70)  If you like Columbus

71)  If you think countries don’t engage in state sponsored terrorism

72)  If you like Disney movies and don’t think they brainwash children and turn them into consumers living in a fantasy land

73)  If you don’t like people’s accents

74)  If you take loans from friends but don’t give it back though you have the money

75)  If you listen to Fox News or right wing talk radio

76)  If you don’t like other languages, or don’t like people who speak other languages

77)  If you think war is good, and killing people makes you feel proud

78)  If you don’t want gun control

79)  If you think atomic bombs are good

80)  If you think there is no connection between the Ammo-sexual gun culture inside America to the war mongering policies and weapons sales outside America

81)  If you like to criticize other people but can’t praise them when they do something good

82)  If you have prejudices against in-laws or automatically hate them

83)  If you harm others and think you’re doing them a favor

84)  If you justify the 800 military bases of the American empire, in 70 countries

85)  If you don’t give credit where credit is due

86)  If you think society has no responsibility in creating crime and poverty

87)  If you can’t survive without maids and servants and use them to show status

88)  If you praise the tall buildings, clock towers and luxury lifestyles of the elite and ruling class of Muslim countries

89)  If you think it’s okay for religious “leaders” to make big money from selling religious items or religious knowledge

90)  If you are being oppressive toward other people

91)  If you think you have automatic entitlement to get favors from people just because you were pampered by your parents

92)  If you are 100% sure you are going to heaven

93)  If you can not tolerate a difference of opinion which disturbs your comfort zone

94)  If you are cruel to other people

95) If you think it’s okay for new age gurus to make big money from selling spiritual items or knowledge

96)  If you make other people fight with each other

97)  If you are a taker and not a giver. Or if you hoard knowledge and don’t share it

98)  If you are closed minded, stubborn and not open to learning

99)  If you are a menace to society, what Robert Bly calls a “savage” man 

100)  If you are rude, obnoxious, negative or nasty, by default

101)  If you love brand names and use them to cover your insecurities

102)  If you can’t practice: live and let live

103) If you use the veil of religiosity to hide your hypocrisy 


Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Where Have You Brought Me


Where Have You Brought Me
 
 
Your heart was a mirage of the holy grail where you brought me
Now six years of marriage is a shady jail where you brought me

To be free to say what I feel against propaganda
Is a 9.9 on the Richter scale where you brought me

I even became a minister just to get your attention Daddy
But in your eyes I always fail where you brought me

Twenty years of citizenship soaked in the melting pot
And still not accepted as an all American male where you brought me

The light's intensity stops me from being just a jerk on the bus
Too many awards have made me stale where you brought me

Non-Muslim women tie a shirt 'round their waist now cover their buns
The nuns are threatened by my sister's veil where you brought me

World Trade Organizations like Enron plunder common folk
CNN's truth is, Fazeel, on auction sale where you brought me 


by Fazeel Azeez Chauhan, 1998

Sunday, March 31, 2013

DEM: Deus Ex Machina / Don't Eat Me



DEM
:
Deus Ex Machina (God in the Machine) Don't Eat Me


I have dem two friends:
The home phone is out side
The cel phone is not in hand

sometimes I use dem
sometimes I lift dem up
sometimes I turn dem off

But because it makes us angry
I never expect anything from dem




(by Fazeel Azeez Chauhan, 1999)