1/1: Shefta Mustafa Khan

izhaar-e-ishq us se

na karna tha ‘shefta’

ye kya kiya ki

dost ko dushman bana diya

you shouldn't have expressed

your love to her, shefta

look what you've done

turned a friend into an enemy

Shefta Mustafa Khan

(1)

dost (4) friend

dushman (6) enemy

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