آخرین شب آشنای ما
Akherin Shame Aashenaye Maa
“The Last Evening of Our Acquaintance”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
The last evening of our acquaintance Was the first night of our separation She came, furious and full of wrath Her heart bearing the mark of betrayal
When the blood-stained claws of dusk With a golden key Unlock the window of night's resting place And open it toward the sun — Do not forget me!
She said: those letters and those poems That I wrote for you from love — Return them to me, for your love I have removed from my own heart
No longer will my feet have the strength To draw me, shadow-like, behind you — But my soul, like a moth, will circle The candle of your beauty And with trembling wings be everywhere with you. My dear! My kind one! My beautiful! Do not forget me!
My trembling hand reached to the corner of the table And drew out her poems I laid them all at her feet And she trampled her own faithfulness underfoot
Transliteration
Akherin shame aashenaye maa Ke nokhostin shabe jodaye bood Amad o khashemnak o qahar alood Dar dilash naqshe bewafaye bood
(Dar a an-mawqe ke panjahaye khon aloode shafaq Darichaye asayeshgahe shab ra Ba kelide telah Baroye khorshid megeshayad Faramosham makon!)
Goft aan namaha o aan ashahar Ke barayat ze ishqo sar kardam Rad kon az bahre man ke mehre tura Digar az qalbe khod badar kardam
(Digar pay man nero nakhwahad dasht ke mara sayawar badonbale tu kashanad, Wale rohe man, Rohe man hamchoon parwana dar peramoon shame jamalat khwahad gasht Wa par par zanan hama ja ba hamrahe tu khwahad bood Azize man! mehrabane man! qashange man! Faramosham makon!)
Daste larzane man ze goshaye mez Badar aaward shehr-hayash raa Hamagi ra ba payash afgandam Kard chon zeer paa wafayash raa
متن اصلی
آخرین شام آشنایی ما که نخستین شب جدایی بود آمد او خشمناک و قهر آلود در دلش نقش بیوفایی بود
( در آنموقع که پنجه های خون آلود شفق دریچه ی آسایشگاه شب را با کلید طلا بروی خورشید میگشایند فراموشم مکن! )
گفت آن نامه ها و آن اشعار که برایت زعشق سر کردم رد کن از بهر من که مهر ترا دیگر از قلب خود بدر کردم
( دیگر پای من نیرو نخواهد داشت که مرا سایه وار بدنبال تو کشاند، ولی روح من، روح من همچون پروانه در پیرامون شمع جمالت خواهد گشت و پر پر زنان همه جا به همراه تو خواهد بود. عزیز من! مهربان من! قشنگ من! فراموشم مکن! )
دست لرزان من ز گوشه ی میز بدر آورد شعر هایش را همگی را به پایش افگندم کرد چون زیر پا وفایش را
The last evening of an acquaintance — she comes furious, demands back her letters, the speaker returns them, she tramples her own faithfulness underfoot. A remarkably narrative-driven love ending.
About This Recording
This song is unusual in Ahmad Zahir's catalog for its narrative specificity. Where most of his recordings inhabit the generalized emotional terrain of the ghazal — longing, separation, the beloved's cruelty — Akherin Shame Aashenaye Maa tells a scene: a final meeting, an exchange of letters, a trampled faithfulness.
The image of the 'blood-stained claws of dusk' unlocking night with a golden key is one of the song's most striking passages — dawn and night described as predator and locked room, beauty and danger intertwined in a way that echoes the broader situation: the end of a love that was once beautiful, now dangerous to remain in.
The closing image — she tramples her own poems, the evidence of her own faithfulness, underfoot — is a gesture of self-erasure. She is removing her own past from the record. The speaker, watching this, is left with nothing but the fact of having witnessed it.
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