استاد محمدحسین سرآهنگ / Ustad Mohammad Hussain Sarahang
Recorded in the early 1980s at the  Goethe-Institut in Kabul. 

The song displays the traditional sound of Kabul's Kharabi music. The lyrics are simple enough for the most common person to understand and remember perhaps it is one of the more popular songs by the late Ustad Sarahang. 

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Composition: Unknown 

Date: Unknown 

Lyrics / Poem: Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi (فخرالدین ابراهیم عراقی‎),  a 13th-century Persian poet 

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English Translated Lyrics by Dr. Wali Ahmadi (2002) 

Make happy my sorrowful soul
Have mercy on my wretched heart 

The first moment I saw you, I said, 
'Here is the one whose love will make me suffer'

Utter my name, from time to time, even in disdain 
For a sour word on your lips becomes sweet 

In your absence, my faith is all heresy 
In your presence, my heresy turns to faith 


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Original Lyrics

شاد کن جان من، که غمگین است
رحم کن بر دلم، که مسکین است
روز اول که دیدمش گفتم
آنکه روزم سیه کند این است
گه گهی یاد کن به دشنامم
سخن تلخ از تو شیرین است
بی‌رخت دین من همه کفر است 
با رخت کفر من همه دین است

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