Double standards
?paRh paRh likh likh laaweyN Dheyr
veyd kitaabaaN chaar chafeyr
girdey chaanan wich anheyr
apney aap dee khabar naa saar
Parh parh masley roz sunaavey
Khaanaa shak shubey da khaweyn
Daseyn hor te hor kamaaweyn
Ander khot baahir suchyaar
You read and write heaps of books
Sacred books are piled up all around you
Surrounded by light, you carry darkness within you
You have no self knowledge at all
You deliever sermons everyday
You eat the food of suspicion and doubt
You preach something and act inversly
Inwardly you are corrupt but outwardly you are pious?
(Translation by Prof Saeed Ahmad)
veyd kitaabaaN chaar chafeyr
girdey chaanan wich anheyr
apney aap dee khabar naa saar
Parh parh masley roz sunaavey
Khaanaa shak shubey da khaweyn
Daseyn hor te hor kamaaweyn
Ander khot baahir suchyaar
You read and write heaps of books
Sacred books are piled up all around you
Surrounded by light, you carry darkness within you
You have no self knowledge at all
You deliever sermons everyday
You eat the food of suspicion and doubt
You preach something and act inversly
Inwardly you are corrupt but outwardly you are pious?
(Translation by Prof Saeed Ahmad)


