من مست و تو دیوانه
Man Masto Tu Deewana
“I Am Drunk and You Are Mad”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
I am drunk and you are mad — who will take us home? A hundred times I told you: drink two or three cups less
In this whole city I see not one sober soul Each worse than the next — frenzied, mad
Beloved, come to the tavern and taste the pleasure of the soul What joy can the soul have without the beloved's company?
In every corner a drunkard, hand upon hand And the cupbearer of all being, with his royal chalice
Transliteration
Ahd kardam ke degar mai nakhoram dar hama omor Ba joz az imshab o farda shab o shabhaye degar
Man mast o tu dewana, ma ra ke barad khana Sad bar tura goftam kam khor do se paymana
Dar shaher yake kas ra hoshyar namebinam Har yak batar az digar shorida o deewana
Jana ba kharabat ah, ta lezat jan beni Jan ra che khoshi bashad be shobat janana?
Az khana beroon raftam, mastem bapesh amad Dar har nazarash mazmar sad golshan o kashana
متن اصلی
من مست و تو دیوانه، ما را که برد خانه صد بار تو را گفتم، کم خور دو سه پیمانه
در شهر یکی کس را هشیار نمیبینم هر یک بتر از دیگر، شوریده و دیوانه
جانا به خرابات آ، تا لذت جان بینی جان را چه خوشی باشد، بیصحبت جانانه
هر گوشه یکی مستی، دستی ز بر دستی وان ساقی هر هستی، با ساغر شاهانه
I Am Drunk and You Are Mad — Rumi's ghazal of double intoxication, both speaker and beloved outside the boundaries of sober social life, both beyond the reach of ordinary judgment.
About This Recording
I am drunk and you are mad, and for once both parties are outside the sober world at the same time — the singer intoxicated, the beloved unhinged. Mast and deewana are not insults here; they mark the people love, or the divine, has cracked open to a state the sober mistake for disorder.
Usually the ghazal ruins the lover while the beloved stays composed and indifferent. Here they are caught in the same storm, and that symmetry changes everything: the recording has the energy of shared abandon rather than one-sided longing.
Poetic Source & Adaptation
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Divan-e Shams, ghazal 2309. The Ganjoor critical edition opens 'man bikhod o tu bikhod' (I am beside myself and so are you); the popular sung tradition — which Ahmad Zahir follows — opens 'man mast o tu deewana.' Both readings carry the same Sufi logic: intoxication and madness as the marks of those opened by love to a state the sober world mistakes for disorder.
More Songs
Not sure what to listen to next?
Discover Ahmad Zahir by Mood →