1/6: tarah

tum hamaare

kisi tarah na hue

varna duniya mein

kya nahin hota

you were not mine

in any form

else, what couldn't

have happened in this world

Theme:Love, Passion and Longing (88)

2/6: tarah

zabaan hamaari na samjha

yahaan koi 'majrooh'

hum ajnabi ki tarah

apne hi watan mein rahe

no one here, ‘majrooh’,

understands what i say

i remain a stranger

in my own land

Theme:Home, Country & Belonging (23)

3/6: tarah

zindagi kam paDhe

pardesi ka khat hai 'ibrat'

ye kisi tarah paDha jaye

na samjha jaye

life is like a little-read letter

of a foreigner, 'ibrat'

however you read it,

you can't make sense of it

Theme:Life, Living & Dying (104)

4/6: tarah

khwaabon ki tarah aanaa

khushbu ki tarah jaana

mumkin hi nahi lagta

ai dost, tujhe paanaa

arriving like a dream, and

leaving with fragrance behind

it seems impossible, my friend,

to find someone like you

Theme:Friends, Family & Community (108)

5/6: tarah

kis kis tarah ki dil mein

guzarti hai hasratein

hai wasl se zyaada

mazaa intezaar ka

so many kinds of unmet desires

keep coursing through the heart

but there is more fun in the waiting

than there is in the getting

Theme:Hopes, Aspirations & Dreams (33)

6/6: tarah

ai raat, mujhe maa ki tarah

god mein le le

din bhar ki mashaqqat se

badan TuuT raha hai

o night, take me into your lap

like my mother

the toil and troubles of the day

have broken my body

Theme:Miscellany (44)