به ساغر نقل کرد
Ba Saghar Naqel Kard
“Transferred to the Wine Cup”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
The cup passed slowly from the vat, slowly, slowly The sun rose from behind the mountain, slowly, slowly
I was deceived by her fiery face, not knowing That she would consume my blood like a kebab, slowly, slowly
A tender heart-kebab requires a steady fire Lift your face from the veil, slowly, slowly
Separation makes its poison manifest little by little The rose water in the flask will grow bitter, slowly, slowly
Transliteration
Ba saghar naqel kard az khom sharab, ahesta ahesta Baramad az pase koh aftab, ahesta ahesta
Ferebe roye atashnak o khordam nadanestam Ke khwahad khord khonam chon kabab, ahesta ahesta
Kabab nazok dil atashe hamwar mekhwahad Bar aaward chehra-at ra az neqab, ahesta ahesta
Jodaye andak andak zaher khod ra mekonad zahir Ke talkh khwahad shod dar meena gulab, ahesta ahesta
متن اصلی
به ساغر نقل کرد از خم شراب، آهسته آهسته بر آمد از پس کوه آفتاب، آهسته آهسته
فریب روی آتشناک او خوردم ندانستم که خواهد خورد خونم چون کباب، آهسته آهسته
کباب نازک دل آتش هموار ميخواهد بر آور چهره ات را از نقاب، آهسته آهسته
جدايی اندک اندک زهر خود را ميکند ظاهر که تلخ خواهد شد در مينا گلاب، آهسته آهسته
Wine poured slowly, the sun rising slowly, love's danger revealing itself slowly — this song uses the repeated 'slowly, slowly' (asta asta) to pace a gradual undoing.
About This Recording
Ba Saghar Naqel Kard is built around the word 'ahesta' (slowly) — everything in the song moves with deliberate delay. The wine from the vat, the sun over the mountain, the beloved's lethal beauty. The pacing is itself the argument: some dangerous things become dangerous only gradually, and by the time you notice, it is already too late.
'I was deceived by her fiery face, not knowing / That she would consume my blood like a kebab, slowly, slowly' — the image of kebab is not incidental. In the ghazal tradition, the lover's body is frequently figured as meat on a fire: consumed, transformed, destroyed by the beloved's heat. Zahir's arrangement gives this image a light pop treatment that makes the violence of the metaphor almost pleasurable.
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