Gar Zolfe Porayshanat

If Your Disheveled Hair

Ahmad ZahirThe MastersStudio · Dari

Lyrics

Lyrics updated · July 2026

English Translation

If your disheveled hair fell into the morning breeze's hand Every heart, wherever it might be, would fall into a trap of affliction

We have cast the ship of our patience into the sea of grief To the end of this storm, where will each plank fall?

After all, what harm would come to the king of kingdoms If one day he cast a glance at the state of a beggar?

Transliteration

Gar zolfe porayshanat dar daste saba oftad har ja ke dile bashad dar dam bala oftad

Ma keshtie sabre khwesh dar bahre gham afghandim Ta aakhir az ein toofan har takhta koja oftad

Aakher chi zeyan oftad sultane mamalek raa Ke-ora nazare roze, bar hale gadah oftad

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English Translation:

If your wavy hair; were to fall into the hands of the morning breeze (when the lure of your mysterious ways, joins up with the gentle morning breeze) Wherever there is a heart, it would (surely) fall into its mischievous snare (Where there is a heart, it would (surely) fall into the trap (of divine love)

I have launched my vessel of patience (and endurance) into the ocean of love As results of this typhoon (hurricane), where shall each piece (plank) end up?

So (really)! what harm could come the ruler of all the nations (ruler of the world: Allah)? If he were to notice someday, the feelings of (this poor) beggar

متن اصلی

گر زلف پُريشانت در دست صبا افتد هر جا که دلی باشد در دام بلا افتد

ما کشتی صبر خويش در بحر غم افگنديم تا آخر از اين طوفان هر تخته کجا افتد

آخر چه زیان افتد سلطان ممالک را کو را نظری روزی، بر حال گدا افتد

A ghazal on the beloved's wind-scattered hair as a trap set for hearts — the ship of patience cast into a sea of grief, no shore promised, the king of kingdoms asked to spare one glance for a beggar.

About This Recording

One gust of morning wind lifts the beloved's loose hair, and every heart within reach is snared. She does nothing. Her nearness, carried on the breeze, is enough, and the shipwreck of the lover follows as a matter of course.

By the last stanza the address turns upward, to a 'king of kingdoms': what would it cost him to glance, just once, at a beggar? The king is a real man and also the beloved; the beggar is the poor and also the lover. Zahir holds both readings at once and settles neither.

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