Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye To Kya Hai Poem by Syed Ahmed Shah

YEH DUNIYA AGAR MIL BHI JAYE TO KYA HAI...(SAHIR LUDHIANVI)

This world of palaces, thrones and crowns
This world of societies inimical to man
A tradition bound world, hungry for wealth
Even if I get it what is so great about it!

Bodies wounded, souls thirsty
Eyes perplexed, hearts empty
A world polluted with air perverted
Even if I get it what is so great about it!

Here, every individual is a mere plaything
A habitation of worshippers of persons dead
Here, compared to life death comes cheap
Even if I get it what is so great about it!

Youth wanders about in sinful existence
Young bodies adorned like flashy markets
Here, love is nothing but affairs of business
Even if I get it what is so great about it!

This is the world where man is worth nothing
Neither of faith nor of friendship
Here, love has no taker no value no merit
Even if I get it what is so great about it!

Burn down this world, just snuff it out
Take this world away from my sight
It is your world, keep it for yourself
Even if I get it what is so great about it!

- - - Translated by Syed Ahmed Shah