صد را در انتظارت
Sad Ra Dar Entezarat
“A Hundred Times in Waiting”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026Transliteration
Sad rah dar intezarat, ta peshte dar dawedam Payam ze kar oftad, wa angah ba sar dawedam
Ta yak saday payee, ze an soye dar shanidam Jastam tura nadidam, bar degar dawedam
Shab raft peshe chashmam, donya seyah gardid, Khorshide man nayamad, man besamar dawedam
Sad rah saram ba dar khord, chon waqt waday tu Har qadar der tar shod, man tundo tar dawedam
Shayad dile tu mesokht, behtar nadid chashmam Choon ba labane khoshk wo chashman tar dawedam
Dar fekere goftgoyat, az khwab o khor gozashtam Dar intezar-e royat, shab ta sahar dawidam
متن اصلی
صد ره در انتظارت، تا پشت در دويدم پايم ز کار افتاد، و آنگه بسر دويدم
تا يک صدای پايی، ز آن سوی در شنيدم جستم ترا نديدم، بار دگر دويدم
شب رفت پيش چشمم، دنيا سياه گرديد خورشيد من نيامد، من بيثمر دويدم
صد ره سرم به در خورد، چون وقت وعده تو هر قدر دير تر شد، من تند تر دويدم
شايد دل تو ميسوخت بهتر نديد چشمم چون با لبان خشک و چشمان تر دويدم
در فکر گفتگویت، از خواب و خور گذشتم در انتظار رویت، شب تا سحر دویدم
The hyperbolism of the ghazal — not once but a hundred times the speaker has waited. Counting as a form of devotion, waiting transformed from passive endurance into active proof of love.
About This Recording
A hundred times, not once — the ghazal loves this kind of counting, where cruelty endured over and over becomes proof of devotion rather than a reason to leave. Zahir's warmth softens it. In his delivery the hundred waitings sound less like punishment than like the texture of a life arranged around a single fact: that the beloved exists, and everything else falls into orbit around her.
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