{"id":14,"date":"2016-10-22T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T04:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:49:32","slug":"what-the-rats-shall-never-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"What The Rats Shall Never Know!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <strong>Annual Translation Time<\/strong> again.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the incomparable <strong>Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan<\/strong> highlighting <strong>Javed Akhtar<\/strong>&#8216;s denunciation of our modern obsession with material wealth &#8211; and it&#8217;s malignant effect on our ability to appreciate the beauty of life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheher Ke Dukandaron | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sTVP_eZs1ik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Listen, and remember that at the end of the day the winner of the rat race is still a rat !<\/p>\n<p><em>shehr ke dukaandaro<\/em><br \/>\n<em>karobar-e-ulfat mein<\/em><br \/>\n<em>sood kya ziyan kya hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>tum na jaan paoge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>dil ke daam kitne hein<\/em><br \/>\n<em>khwab kitne mehnge hein<\/em><br \/>\n<em>aur naqd-e-jaan kya hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>tum na jaan paoge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>o merchants of the city<br \/>\nin the trade of love<br \/>\nwhat is profit and what is loss<br \/>\nyou shall never know!<\/p>\n<p>the price of a heart<br \/>\nthe value of dreams<br \/>\nthe currency of life<br \/>\nyou shall never know!<\/p>\n<p><em>koi kaise milta hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>phool kaise khilta hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>aankh kaise jhukti hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>saans kaise rukti hai<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>kaise raah nikalti hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>kaise baat chalti hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>shouq ki zabaan kya hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>tum na jaan paoge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>how soulmates meet<br \/>\nhow flowers bloom<br \/>\nthe lowering of a gaze<br \/>\nthe catch in a breath<\/p>\n<p>how the path emerges<br \/>\nhow the tale flows<br \/>\nthe language of desire<br \/>\nyou shall never know!<\/p>\n<p><em>wasl ka sukoon kya hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>hijr ka junoon kya hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>husn ka fusoon kya hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>ishq ke daroon kya hai<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>tum mareez-e-danai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>maslihat ke shaydai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>raah-e-gumrahan kya hai,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>tum na jaan paoge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>the tranquility of a tryst<br \/>\nthe frenzy of separation<br \/>\nthe enchantment of beauty<br \/>\nthe essence of love<\/p>\n<p>afflicted with intellect<br \/>\ndevoted to self interest<br \/>\nthe path to losing oneself<br \/>\nyou shall never know!<\/p>\n<p><em>zakhm kaise phaltay hain<\/em><br \/>\n<em>daagh kaise jalte hain<\/em><br \/>\n<em>dard kaise hota hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>koi kaise rota hai<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>ashq kya hai nalay kya<\/em><br \/>\n<em>dasht kya hai chalay kya<\/em><br \/>\n<em>aah kya fughaan kya hai,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>tum na jaan paoge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>how wounds fester<br \/>\nhow scars smoulder<br \/>\nhow pain hurts<br \/>\nhow the sufferer sobs<\/p>\n<p>tears and lament<br \/>\nwilderness and blisters<br \/>\nsighs and wails<br \/>\nyou shall never know!<\/p>\n<p><em>janta hoon mein tum ko<\/em><br \/>\n<em>zouq-e-shaiyri bhi hai<\/em><br \/>\n<em>shaksiyat sajaane mein<\/em><br \/>\n<em>ik yeh mahiri bhi hai<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>phir bhi harf chunte ho<\/em><br \/>\n<em>sirf lafz sunte ho<\/em><br \/>\n<em>in ke darmiyaan kya hai,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>tum na jaan paoge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>i know you too<br \/>\nas a connoisseur of poetry<br \/>\nat embellishing your personality<br \/>\nyou are adept<\/p>\n<p>yet you pick and choose letters<br \/>\nand hear just the words<br \/>\nwhat lies between the lines<br \/>\nyou shall never know!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/sign.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"29\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Comments &amp; suggestions are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Annual Translation Time again. Listen to the incomparable Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan highlighting Javed Akhtar&#8216;s denunciation of our modern obsession with material wealth &#8211; and it&#8217;s malignant effect on our ability to appreciate the beauty of life. Listen, and remember that at the end of the day the winner of the rat race is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}