سخی جان میروی
Sakhi Jan Merawi
“Sakhi Jan, Are You Leaving”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
O Sakhi Jan, you go on foot — my pretty sweetheart O Sakhi Jan, you go — watch your shoes, my pretty sweetheart
O heart, go to the garden and learn generosity from the pomegranate Which has the surge of blood in its heart and laughter on its face
O Sakhi Jan, you go on foot — my pretty sweetheart O Sakhi Jan, you go — pray for us, my pretty sweetheart
Transliteration
Sakhi jan merawi pai-e piada, nazi dilbar-e man Sakhi jan merawi bootet ra negah kon, nazi dilbar-e man
Dila ba bagh beraw mashrab az anaar amooz Ke mawj-e khoon ba dil o khanda bar dahan darad Sakhi jan merawi pai-e piada, nazi dilbar-e man Sakhi jan merawi ma ra dua kon, nazi dilbar-e man
Man nestam choon degaran bazicha-e bazigaran Awal ba daam aram tu ra o angah gereftarat shawam Sakhi jan merawi pai-e piada, nazi dilbar-e man Sakhi jan merawi ma ra dua kon, nazi dilbar-e man
Har ke amad ba dargah-e tu ba omide Rawa madar ke man na-omid bargardam Sakhi jan merawi pai-e piada, nazi dilbar-e man Bia pa ba rekab-e asp-e ma kon, nazi dilbar-e man
متن اصلی
سخی جان میروی پایِ پیاده، نازی دلبر من سخی جان میروی بوتت را نگاه کن، نازی دلبر من
دلا به باغ برو مشرب از انار آموز که موج خون به دل و خنده بر دهان دارد سخی جان میروی پایِ پیاده، نازی دلبر من سخی جان میروی ما را دعا کن، نازی دلبر من
من نیستم چون دیگران بازیچه ی بازیگران اول به دام آرم تو را و آنگه گرفتارت شوم سخی جان میروی پایِ پیاده، نازی دلبر من سخی جان میروی ما را دعا کن، نازی دلبر من
هر که آمد به درگاه تو به امیدی روا مدار که من نا امید بر گردم سخی جان میروی ما را دعا کن، نازی دلبر من سخی جان میروی پایِ پیاده، نازی دلبر من بیا پا به رکاب اسب ما کن، نازی دلبر من
O Sakhi Jan, you go on foot — watch your shoes; O heart, go to the garden and learn generosity from the pomegranate: blood in its heart, laughter on its face; pray for us as you go.
About This Recording
Sakhi Jan Merawi — O Sakhi Jan, You Go — is a folk song in the Afghan tradition of the farewell to someone leaving on a journey, with a devotional reference: Sakhi Jan refers to Hazrat Ali Ibn Abi Talib, one of Islam's most revered figures in the Afghan Sufi tradition, whose shrine at Mazar-i-Sharif draws pilgrims from across Afghanistan. The beloved is being asked to pray for the speaker at Sakhi Jan's shrine.
'O Sakhi Jan, you go on foot — watch your shoes' — the instruction to watch the shoes is a practical reminder but also carries an echo of the visitor at the shrine who removes shoes before entering. The caution is both pragmatic (the road is rough) and reverential (the destination is sacred). The beloved is going to a place that requires such care.
'O heart, go to the garden and learn generosity from the pomegranate / Which has the surge of blood in its heart and laughter on its face' — the pomegranate metaphor is among the most beautiful in this collection. The pomegranate holds its red seeds (its 'blood') inside while wearing a leather exterior that gives no sign of the interior richness. To have the 'surge of blood in the heart and laughter on the face' is the pomegranate's form of generosity — hiding the wound, showing the warmth. The poem instructs the heart to learn this from the pomegranate: contain your grief, offer your smile, and send the beloved off well.
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