Aliman di roghnaye dady duniya

On Knowledge                                        

عالمان دي روښنايي ددې دنيا

عالمان دي د تمام جهان پېشوا

که څوک لار غواړي و خداى ته و رسول ته

عالمان دي ددې لارې رهنما

کيمياگر که د کيميا په طلب گرځي

همدمي د عالمانو ده کيميا

په مجلس د عالمانو به سرۀ زر شي

که څوک کاڼى وي که لُوټه د صحرا

جاهلان دي په مثال د مرده گانو

عالمان دي په مثال د مسيحا

چې مرده يې له نفسه ژوندي کېږي

عالمان دي واړه هسې اوليا

هر سړى چې رتبه نۀ لري د علم

سړى نۀ دى خالي نقش دى گويا

زه رحمان حلقه بگوش د هر عالم يم

که اعلٰى دى که اوسط دى که ادنىٰ

Translation

Lights in the world are those, who know,

Guides of mankind are those, who know

When looking for the road to God

And prophet, ask from those, who know

The alchemist in his research

Finds sympathy with those, who know

A desert stone will turn to gold

In company with those, who know

An ignorant is like a corpse,

Like Jesus Christ are those, who know

For by His breath the dead arose,

The saintly breath of those, who know

Those are not humans, only shells,

The empty ones, who do not know

No matter to which low degree,

REHMAN will serve the ones, who know

Translated by Jens Enevoldsen from, The Nightingale of Peshawar: Selected Poems of Rehman Baba