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Ranjha Ranjha Kardi Ni Main

Calling Ranjha, I became Ranjha

9 source-linked platform links ↗DOHRA

Main Vaisan Jogi De Naal

I Will Go with the Yogi

Padh Padh Aalim Fazil Hoyon

You Never Read Your Own Self

11 source-linked platform links ↗DOHRA

Masjid dha de, mandir dha de

Do not break a heart

6 source-linked platform links ↗DOHRA

Bullhe Shāh chal othe chalīe

Where no one knows my rank

Kar Kattan Vall Dhian Kure

Girl, Attend to Your Spinning

4 source-linked platform links ↗DOHRA

Mainu Ishq Hulare Denda

Love Lifts Me in Its Arms

āpṇe tan dī khabar nā kāī

Who can bring news of the beloved?

4 source-linked platform links ↗KAFI

Meri Bukkal De Vich Chor

A Thief Within My Shawl

6 source-linked platform links ↗KAFI

Aao faqiro mele chaliye

Come, seekers, to the gathering

3 source-linked platform links ↗DOHRA

Aao saiyo ral diyo ni vadhai

Friends, come celebrate with me

Bullhe Shāh uh kauṇ hai

Scripture and sacred thread

Ghunghaṭ ohle nā lukk sohṇiān

Do not hide behind the veil

6 source-linked platform links ↗KAFI

Ik nukte vich gall mukkdī e

The matter ends in one point

Ishq dī navion navīn bahār

Love’s ever-new spring

4 source-linked platform links ↗DOHRA

Main Kion Kar Javan Kaabe Nu

How Could I Go to the Kaaba?

makke giān gall mukadī nāhīn

The journey that ends the self

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nā khudā masīte labhadā

Not in buildings and books

Rāñjhā jogīṛā baṇ āiā

Ranjha has come as a yogi

Sāḍe vall mukhṛā moṛ ve piāriā

Turn your face toward us

Behadd ramzān dasdā nīn

The beloved reveals boundless mysteries

Bullhe nūn samjhāvaṇ āīān

They came to reason with Bullah

Mera Ranjha Hun Koi Hor

My Ranjha Is Someone Else Now

Ab ham gumm hue prem nagar ke shahar

Lost in the city of love

Aisa jagya gyan palita

The wick of knowing has caught fire

Aisa man men aiyo re

You entered my heart this way

Akkhan vich dil jani piariya

Beloved of my heart, within my eyes

Allāh ton main te karaz baṇāiā

A debt of care

arabā-anāsar mahil baṇāyo

The palace of four elements

Bansī Kāhn acharaj bajāī

Krishna played a wondrous flute

bhaṭṭh namāzān te chikaṛ roze

The beloved within

Bullhā kasar nām kasūr hai

The town called Kasur

Bullhe chal bāvarachīkhāne yār de

The beloved's kitchen

Bullhe kolon chullhā changā

Better a cooking hearth

Bullhe nūn lok mattīn dende

Prayer of the heart

bullhiā acchhe din te picchhe gae

After the birds have eaten

bullhiā āshak hoiun rabb dā

Say yes to their reproach

bullhiā āundā sājan vekh ke

The departing beloved

bullhiā chal suniār de

One silver, many shapes

bullhiā cherī musalamān dī

In service of both

bullhiā dharamasālā dhaṛavāī rahinde

Lovers live apart

bullhiā dharamasālā vich nāhīn

Hold to the true door

bullhiā ghain gharūrat sāṛ suṭṭ

Burn pride away

bullhiā hijarat vich isalām de

A daily journey

bullhiā ishq sajaṇ de āe ke

The beloved's minstrel

bullhiā jaisī sūrat ain dī

The difference of one dot

bullhiā je tūn ghāzī baṇanain

Before you call yourself a warrior

bullhiā kaṇak kauḍī kāmanī

Three swords

bullhiā kasūr bedasatūr

Kasur without custom

bullhiā kāzī rāzī rishavate

What pleases each

bullhiā khā harām te paṛh shukarānā

Beyond the tally of merit

bullhiā main miṭṭī ghumiār dī

The potter's clay

bullhiā man manjolā munj dā

Beat out the fibre

bullhiā mullān ate masālachī

Those who carry the light

bullhiā painḍe paṛe prem ke

The blind guide

bullhiā parason kāfar thī gaiun

At home beyond dispute

bullhiā pī sharāb te khā kabāb

Outwit the trickster

bullhiā rang mahallīn jā chaṛhiun

What the world has given

bullhiā vāre jāīe uhanān ton

Grand claims, small gifts

bullhiā vāre jāīe unhān ton

The gift and the theft

Chalo dekhīe us mastānaṛe nūn

Come, see that ecstatic one

Chupp karke karīn guzāre nūn

Live your days in silence

Ḍholā ādmī baṇ āiā

The beloved came in human form

Ghunghaṭ chukk o sajaṇā

Lift the veil, beloved

Gur jo chāhe so kardā e

The master does as he wills

hor ne sabbhe galaṛīān

Beyond the scholars' clamour

Horī khelūngī kahi Bismillāh

I shall play Holi in God’s name

Huṇ kis thīn āp chhupāīdā

From whom can you hide now?

Huṇ mainūn kauṇ pachhāṇe

Who can recognize me now?

Ik alif paṛho chhuṭkārā e

Read one alif and be free

Ik nukta yār paṛhāiā e

The beloved taught one point

Ilmon bas karīn o yār

Enough of learned knowledge, friend

in ko mukkh dikhalāe hai

To those who love

is kā mukkh ik jot hai

The world as a veil

iṭṭ khaṛike dukkuṛ vajje

Feed the mendicants

Jis Tan Laggia Ishq Kamaal

When Perfect Love Takes Hold

Kadi Aa Mil Yaar Piaria

Come and Meet Me, Dearest Friend

Kadi Apni Aakh Bulaoge

Will You Ever Call Me Your Own?

kaṇak kauḍī kāmanī

Remember why you came

Ki Bedardan Sang Yari

Why Befriend the Heartless?

Ki Janan Main Koi

What Do I Know of Being Anyone?

Mae Na Murda Ishq Divana

Mother, Mad Love Will Not Turn Back

Mahi Ve Tain Milian

Beloved, Meeting You Ends Sorrow

Mittar Piare Karan

For My Dearest Friend

mūnh dikhalāve aur chhape

The beloved's disguises

Na Jivan Maharaj

My Lord, I Cannot Live Without You

nā khudā main tīrath ḍiṭṭhā

When the guide was found

Pardā kis toñ rākhīdā

From whom do you hide?

phirī rutt shagūphiān vālī

Birds in the flowering season

Piāriā sānūñ miṭṭhaṛā nā laggdā shor

Dear one, clamour holds no sweetness for me

Rahu rahu oe ishqā māriā ī

Stop, love, you have killed us

ranghaṛ nālon khinghar changā

The stone and the goat

Sajjaṇāñ de vichhoṛe koloñ

Through separation from the beloved

1 source-linked platform links ↗SIHARFIAN

Se vaṇjāre āe nī māe

Those merchants have come, mother

Sīharfīāñ

Alphabet poems of longing and recognition

7 source-linked platform links ↗VERSE SEQUENCE

Sir te topi te niyat khoti

A cap upon a crooked purpose

Suno tum ishq kī bāzī

Hear the wager of love

ṭhākur duāre ṭhagg basen

At the Lord's door

Tūñ nahīoñ maiñ nāhīñ

Without you, I am not

uh hādī mere andar boliā

The inward guide

Ulṭe hor zamāne āe

Strange, inverted times have come

Uṭṭh gae gavāñḍhoñ yār

My friends have left the neighbourhood

Uṭṭh jāg ghurāṛe mār nahīñ

Rise and wake, do not snore

Vāh vāh ramz sajaṇ dī hor

The beloved’s secret is something else

vahadat de dariā dasende

Across the river of oneness

Vekho nī kī kar giā māhī

See what my beloved has done

Aa mil yaar saar lai meri

Come, beloved, tend to me

Aa sajan gal lagg asade

Come, beloved, embrace me

Ab kyon sajan chir laiyo re

Beloved, why do you delay?

Ab lagan lagi keh kariye

What shall I do with this longing?

Alif Allah nal ratta dil mera

My heart is dyed with Alif, Allah

Amman babe di bhaliai

Our parents left us this kindness

1 source-linked platform links ↗ATHWARA

Apne sang ralain piare

Beloved, draw me into yourself

Aṭhvārā

A week of longing

Read in English & Punjabi ↗BARANMAH

Bārah Māh

The twelve months of longing

Bas kar jī huṇ bas kar jī

Enough now, beloved

Bhainān main kattdī kattdī huṭṭī

Sisters, I am worn out with spinning

Bharvāsā kī āshnāī dā

What trust can love offer?

4 source-linked platform links ↗KAFI

Bhāven jāṇ nā jāṇ ve vihṛe ā vaṛ mere

Enter my courtyard

Bullhā kī jāṇe zāt ishq dī kauṇ

What does Bullah know of love’s kind?

Read in English & Punjabi ↗DOHRA

bullhiā har mandar men āike

The learned sent away

bullhiā sabh majāzī pauṛīān

The ladder of earthly love

Dil loche māhī yār nūn

The heart longs for the beloved

Fasummā vajhul-Allāh dasnā en ajj o yār

Show the face of God today

1 source-linked platform links ↗GANDHAN

Gall raule lokān pāī e

People have lost the matter in noise

Gaṇḍhāñ

Forty knots until the wedding

Ghar men Gangā āī santo

The Ganges has come home

Ghaṛiālī dio nikāl nī

Send the timekeeper away

Hājī lok Makke nūn jānde

Pilgrims go to Mecca

Hatthī ḍhilak gaī mere charkhe dī

My spinning wheel’s handle has slipped

Hijāb karen darveshī kolon

How long will you rule?

Hindū nā nahīn Musalmān

Neither Hindu nor Muslim

Huṇ main lakhiā sohṇā yār

Now I have seen the beautiful beloved

Ih acharaj sādho kauṇ kahāve

Who is this wonder, seekers?

Ih dukh jā kahūn kis āge

To whom can I tell this grief?

Ik Rānjhā mainūn loṛīdā

I need only Ranjha

Is nehūn dī ulṭī chāl

Love takes a contrary path

Ishq asān nāl kehī kītī

What love has done to us

Ishq haqīqī ne muṭṭhī kuṛe

True love has robbed me

Jichar nā ishq majāzī lāge

Until earthly love takes hold

Jind kuṛikī de mūnh āī

Life has reached the trap’s mouth

Jo Rang Rangia Gurha Rangia

Dyed in the Guide’s Crimson

Kadi Aa Mil Birhon Satai Nu

Come to the One Tormented by Separation

Kadi Mor Muharan Dholia

Turn Your Reins This Way

Kapuri Reori Kion Kar Lare Patase Naal

Why Should One Sweet Fight Another?

Katt Kure Na Vatt Kure

Spin, Girl, Do Not Wander

Kaun Aia Pahin Libas Kure

Who Has Come in This Disguise?

Kehe Lare Dena En Sanu

What Promises Are These?

Khaki Khak Sion Ral Jana

Dust Must Return to Dust

Khed Lai Vich Vihre Ghummi Ghumm

Turn and Play Within the Courtyard

Ki Karda Beparvahi Je

Why This Indifference?

Ki Karda Ni Ki Karda Ni

What Is the Beloved Doing?

Kihnu La-Makani Dasde Ho

Whom Do You Call Beyond All Place?

Kion Ishq Asan Te Aia E

Why Has Love Descended on Us?

Kion Larna Hain Ghair Gunahi

Why Quarrel with the Innocent?

Kion Ohle Bahi Bahi Jhaki Da

Why Peek from Behind the Veil?

Lantarani Das Ke Jani

You Said: You Shall Not See Me

Main Be-Qaid

I Am Unbound

Main Chuhretari Aa Sache Sahib De Darbaron

A Sweeper from the True Lord’s Court

Main Chuhretari Aa Sache Sahib Di Sarkaron

A Sweeper in the True Lord’s Service

Main Gall Othe Di Karda Han

I Speak of That Other Place

Main Kusumbra Chun Chun Hari

Weary from Gathering Safflower

Main Pa Parhian Ton Nassna Han

I Flee the Merely Learned

Main Paia E

I Have Found It

Main Puchhan Shahu Dian Vatan

I Ask the Way to My Beloved

Main Udikan Kar Rahi

I Keep Waiting for Your Visit

Main Vich Main Na Rahi Rai

Not a Grain of Me Remains

Mainu Chhad Gae Aap Ladd Gae

They Left Me and Went Away

Mainu Dard Avallare Di Pir

The Ache of a Strange Affliction

Mainu Ki Hoia

What Has Happened to Me?

Mainu Sukh Da Sunehra

Bring Me Good Tidings Soon

Man Atakio Sham Sundar Son

My Heart Clings to Beautiful Shyam

Mati Kudam Karendi Yaar

Dust Is Dancing, Friend

Mere Ghar Aia Pia Hamara

My Beloved Has Come Home

Mere Kion Chir Laia Mahi

Why Have You Delayed, Beloved?

Mere Mahi Kion Chir Laia E

My Beloved, Why This Delay?

Mere Naushahu Da Kit Mol

What Price Has My Bridegroom?

Mil Lao Sahelario

Come Meet Me, My Friends

Mullan Mainu Marda I

The Mullah Beats Me

Munh Aai Baat Na Rahindi E

The Word Will Not Stay Unspoken

Murli Baj Uthi Anghatan

The Flute Sounds Without Warning

Nī kuṭīchal merā nāñ

They call me the wayward one

Nī maiñ huṇ suṇiā ishq sharhā kī nātā

What kinship has love with law?

Nī mainūñ laggaṛā ishq avall dā

The first love has seized me

Nī saīo maiñ gaī gavāchī

Friends, I have lost myself

Nitt paṛhnā eñ istaghfār

You recite forgiveness every day

Pāṇī bhar bhar gaīāñ sabbhe

All have drawn their water and gone

Paṛtālio huṇ āshiq kehṛe

Discern now who the lovers are

Pattīāñ likhūñgī maiñ Shām nūñ

I will write letters to Shyam

Piā piā karde hamīñ piā hoe

Calling the beloved, I became the beloved

Piāre bin maslihat uṭṭh jāṇā

You must leave without consultation

Piāriā sañbhal ke nehuñ lā

Take care before you love

Rain gaī laṭke sabh tāre

The night has passed

Rātīñ jāgeñ kareñ ibādat

You keep vigil at night

Roze hajj nimāz nī māe

Fasts, pilgrimage and prayer, mother

Sabh iko rañg kapāhīñ dā

All share the cotton’s colour

Sadā maiñ sāhavriāñ ghar jāṇā

I must go forever to my husband’s house

Sāīñ chhup tamāshe nūñ āiā

The Lord came hidden to the spectacle

Saīo huṇ maiñ sājan pāio ī

Friends, I have found the beloved

Sānūñ ā mil yār piāriā

Come meet us, beloved friend

Taiñ kit par pāuñ pasārā e

On what have you stretched your feet?

Tāñgh māhī dī jalīāñ

Burning with longing for my beloved

Ṭukk būjh kauṇ chhup āiā e

Discern who has come in hiding

Tūñ kidheroñ āiā kidhar jāṇā

Where have you come from?

Ṭūṇe kāmaṇ karke

With charms and enchantments

Tusīñ āo mil merī piārī

Come meet me, dear friends

Tusīñ karo asāḍī kārī

Find a cure for me

Ulṭī Gaṅg bahāio re sādho

Make the Ganges flow backward

Vāh sohṇiāñ terī chāl ajāib

How wondrous your graceful way

Vāh vāh chhiñjh paī darbār

A wrestling match in the court

Vall parde vich pāiā yār

The beloved brought me behind the veil

Vatt nā karsāñ māṇ Rañjheṭe yār dā

Never again will I boast of Ranjha

Vekho nī piārā mainūñ sufne meñ chhal giā

My beloved deceived me in a dream