Unki आंखों ka नूर

बरसों नूर रहे उन आंखों में.

हमारी गुमनाम गलियों को रोशन करे

दिल जलने का खौफ नहीं हमें अब

बरसों चिराग ए दिल बन कर, आंखों में उनके

हम ही तो जल बुझ कर रौशन रहे.

Let there be a glow in her eyes

May it light up the alley of lost names, I inhabit

No more I fear the turning of my heart ashen.

As it was I who lived for years, as the flame of her heart.

In her eyes, sometimes lit up and dowsed,

it was I who glowed always.

                                   - On Afreen Afreen by Rahat Fateh & Momina Mustehsan,Coke Studio

Dushmano ki khoobsoorati

Shayad hum jaisa hi dil hai unka,
Dil ki khanak se maaloom hota hai.
Aisee khobsoorati dushmano ko na de maula,
Zalimon pe fida hone ka dil karta hai....

                       - On Afreen Afreen by Rahat Fateh and Momina Mustehsan

To, Kashmir - with love

To, Kashmir...

Uncertain we held hands in the mist,Hoping for a negotiated communion

You sent me baskets of apples
And sacks full of walnuts
I sent you goodwill and gunmen
To ward off looters and demons.

Now, our union has come to this…
You pelt a thousand stones
I spray a million pellets
Our imagined communion lies in a pool of blood.

The hand you held once have become fetters?
Today you sit on heaps of apples bitter
And I have sent for you with swagger
A thousand grenades of Chilli pepper. -

                                                          From, India - with love