When There Was Nothing, There Was God, Ghalib In English Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

When there was nothing
There was God
If nothing had happened
God would have been there
My existence destroyed me
If I had not existed
what could have happened?

Sorrows have shocked me over and over
The shock of my beheading, why should I care?
If the my head was not cut off from my body
It would have been over my knees
Kneeling for Allah for his duas

Ghalib died years ago
But people still remember him
He used to argue always wondering
If something did not happen
It was supposed to happen
What could have happened!