عاشقم عاشق به رویت
Asheqam Asheq Ba Royat
“I Am a Lover, Loving Your Face”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
I am in love, in love with your face — if you do not know, then know I have burned in longing for you — if you do not know, then know
With all the chains and bonds and the rival's tricks and deceit I will come to your lane — if you do not know, then know
Do not listen to slander — I am not one who breaks his word I am searching for you — if you do not know, then know
If the rival dies of grief, or envy blinds him I will plant a kiss on your face — if you do not know, then know
Transliteration
Asheqam, asheq ba royat, gar namedani bedan Sokhtam dar arezoyat, gar namedani bedan
Ba hama zanjeer o band o hila o makre raqib Khwaham amad man ba koyat, gar namedani bedan
Mashnaw az bad goo sokhan, man sost pyman nestam Hastam andar jostjoyat, gar namedani bedan
Gar raqib az gham bemirad, ya hasrat korash konad Bosa khwaham zad ba royat, gar namedani bedan
Asheqam, asheq ba royat, gar namedani bedan Sokhtam dar arezoyat, gar namedani bedan
متن اصلی
عاشقم، عاشق به رويت، گر نميدانی بدان سوختم در آرزويت، گر نميدانی بدان
با همه زنجير و بند و حيله و مکر رقيب خواهم آمد من به کويَت، گر نميدانی بدان
مشنو از بد گو سخن، من سُست پيمان نيستم هستم اندر جستجويت، گر نميدانی بدان
گر رقيب از غم بميرد، يا حسرت کورش کند بوسه خواهم زد به رويت، گر نميدانی بدان
عاشقم عاشق به رويت، گر نميدانی بدان سوختم در آرزويت، گر نميدانی بدان
I am in love with your face — if you do not know, then know. Despite rivals, chains, slander, and deceit, I will come to your lane; if the rival dies of envy, I will plant a kiss on your face.
About This Recording
The anaphoric refrain 'agar nami-dani, bidan' — if you do not know, then know — gives Asheqam Asheq Ba Royat its rhetorical architecture. Each stanza makes a new declaration and ends with the same imperative: take this knowledge, register it, it is now your information as much as mine. The speaker is not pleading but testifying, and the beloved is being summoned as audience rather than appealed to as judge.
The rival (raqib) appears as the obstacle — a standard figure in the ghazal who represents both social competition and the general hostility of the world to the lover's project. 'Chains and bonds and the rival's tricks and deceit' — the obstacles are enumerated not to suggest doubt but to make the determination clearer. The more obstacles are named, the more the refusal to be stopped by them declares something about the speaker's nature.
The final couplet is the most direct the song gets: 'If the rival dies of grief, or envy blinds him / I will plant a kiss on your face.' The rival's fate — death or blindness — is presented not with malice but with indifference. The speaker's attention is entirely on the act of the kiss, which is the goal the entire song has been working toward.
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