Tu Dani Tu Ze Chi Jawhar
“You Know, You of What Substance”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
You know, you — from what substance did you create our wounded hearts That a thousand tulips will cover our graves after this
What can I do but say: look with kindness, look At our burning hearts, our ashamed faces
I am that broken instrument that you do not play What lamentation shall I make for the hand that cut our strings
Transliteration
Tu dani tu, ze chi jawhar afridi, dil daghdare ma raa Ke hazar lala poshad, pas az ein mazar ma raa
Che konam joz ein ke goyam, bengar ba lotf-o bengar Dil garmsoze ma raa, rokh sharmsare ma raa
Manam aan shekasta saze, ke tu am namenawazee Che feghan konam ze daste, ke gosesta taar ma raa
متن اصلی
تو دانی تو، زچه جوهر آفريدی، دل داغدار ما را که هزاران لاله پوشد، پس ازين مزار ما را
چه کنم جز اين که گويم، بنگر به لطف بنگر دل گرمسوز ما را، رخ شرمسار ما را
منم آن شکسته سازی، که تو ام نمی نوازی چه فغانم کنم زدستی، که گسسته تار ما را
A Hafiz ghazal turned into song — the poet addressing God directly, asking what divine substance the wounded heart was made of, that even in death it clothes itself in tulips.
About This Recording
A question flung straight at God: from what substance did you make these wounded hearts, that even the grave dresses them in tulips? Hafiz doesn't plead here so much as interrogate, and the wound, the poem implies, was the maker's own doing.
Zahir sets it with no churchly hush at all. The arrangement is as warm and unguarded as his love songs, which is exactly the point. For him the distance between loving God and loving a person was never much of a distance.
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