چه خلاف سر زد از ما
Che Khelaf Sar Zad Az Ma
“What Rebellion Arose from Us”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
What wrong came from us that you locked the door You sat with enemies and broke the hearts of friends
From your eyes instead of kohl, sleep pours From your ruby lips instead of laughter, wine pours You are more bloomed than the blossom of the sun From every glance of yours a hundred suns pour
I broke my shoulder on the pretense of transgression So the ringlets of your hair could not reach out their hands
Transliteration
Che khelaf sar zad az ma ke dar saray basti Bar doshmanan neshasti dil dostan shekasti
(Ba jaye sorma ze chashme tu khwab merezad Ba jaye khanda ze lahlat sharab merezad Tu az shogofaye khorshid ham shegofta tari Ze har negahe tu sad aftab merezad)
Sar shana ra shekastam ba bahanaye tadawal Ke ba halqa halqa zolfat nakonad daraz dasti
(Negahe wahshyat az man chi ahoana ramid Magar ba jaye negahat shetab merezad Saram ze mehre tu ba mher hamsari darad Dilam ze qahre tu manand aab merezad Ze bas ba kherman janam negahat atash zad Ze harf harfe dilam eltehab merezad)
Bakamal ozer goftam ke ba lab rasida janam Ze ghroore naz gofti ke magar hanoz hasti?
Ze tawafe kaba begzar tu ke haq nameshenasi Ba dare kenesht manshin tu ke but nameparasti
Tu ke tarke sar nagofti ze peyash chegona rafti? Tu ke naqd jan nadadi ze ghamash chegona rasti?
متن اصلی
چه خلاف سر زد از ما که در سرای بستی بر دشمنان نشستی دل دوستان شکستی
(به جای سرمه ز چشم تو خواب میریزد به جای خنده ز لعلت شراب میریزد تو از شکوفه ی خورشید هم شگفته تری ز هر نگاه تو صد آفتاب میریزد)
سر شانه را شکستم به بهانه ی تطاول که به حلقه حلقه زلفت نکند دراز دستی
(نگاه وحشی ات از من چه آهوانه رمید مگر به جای نگاهت شتاب میریزد سرم ز مهر تو با مهر همسری دارد دلم ز قهر تو مانند آب میریزد ز بس به خرمن جانم نگاهت آتش زد ز حرف حرف دلم التهاب میریزد)
به کمال عذر گفتم که به لب رسيد جانم ز غرور ناز گفتی که مگر هنوز هستی؟
ز طواف کعبه بگذر، تو که حق نمی شناسی به در کنشت منشين تو که بت نمی پرستی
تو که ترک سر نگفتی ز پيش چگونه رفتی؟ تو که نقد جان ندادی ز غمش چگونه رستی؟
What wrong came from us that you locked the door and sat with enemies? A poem of wounded innocence, where the beloved's cruelty transforms even her physical attributes — kohl, lips, gaze — into sources of bewilderment.
About This Recording
The poem's central question — 'what wrong came from us that you locked the door?' — establishes a posture of innocence that never quite convinces. In Persian ghazal tradition, the lover's guilt is usually assumed; to protest innocence is itself a subtle form of complaint. 'You sat with enemies and broke the hearts of friends' tells us something about a social world where the beloved's loyalties had consequences beyond the personal.
'From your eyes instead of kohl, sleep pours' — kohl (surma) is the eyeliner worn traditionally in Kabul and across the region, and 'sleep pours from the eyes' is an image of intoxication, of heavy-lidded languor that overwhelms the formal cosmetic function. 'From your ruby lips instead of laughter, wine pours' — the mouth yields wine rather than speech. The beloved's body overflows with luxury and intoxication regardless of what her heart is doing.
'I broke my shoulder on the pretense of transgression / So the ringlets of your hair could not reach out their hands' — the phrase accepts blame for a sin that may be imagined rather than real. 'The ringlets of hair reaching out their hands' is a Hafizian image — hair as seductive snares that reach across the distance the quarrel has created. Even in protestation, the beloved's hold reasserts itself.
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