Farsi (Dari) Poem: Sayed Isma'el Balkhi - Blood - - -

مرا جام دل از این یاد، خون است عروس وصل را داماد، خون است لب شیرین دهد بر کوه‌کن پند که مزد تیشه‌ی فرهاد، خون است اگر خواهی همی رشد سیاسی طریق مرشد و ارشاد، خون است به غفلت، آبرو از جوی ما رفت به استمداد و استرداد، خون است جوانان، در قلم، رمز شفا نیست دوای درد استبداد، خون است ز خون بنویس بر دیوار ظالم که آخِر، سیل این بنیاد، خون است بزن «بلخی» تو هم در صف رندان که هر چه هست، بادا باد، خون است شعر دری دکلمه: شهید خطیبی This memory fills the cup of my heart with blood The blood is the link from bride to groom For it brings Shirin’s advise to the mountaineer That the wage of Farhad’s axe is blood If you want all that is political growth The road of guide and guidance is blood Due to negligence, our reputation has drifted away For assisstance and restitution, it is blood O youth, in the pen, is not the secret of healing O youth, in the pen, is not the secret of healing The medicine for the pain of tyranny is blood Write in blood on the wall of the tyrant After all, the flood of this foundation is blood O Balkhi, you also must join the queue Whatever happens, it is blood that is eternal Sayed Isma'el Balkhi (Dari: سید اسماعیل بلخی) (1918 –14 July 1968) was one of the most prominent Hazara reformist leaders in 20th-century Afghanistan. As a poet, mystic and a political leader, Balkhi is considered the figurehead of modern Hazara history. Sayed Ismael Balkhi was born in 1918 in Balkhab district, Sar-e Pol province in Northern Afghanistan. He received early education in Afghanistan after which he traveled to Iraq for further studies in Islamic theology and jurisprudence. Ismael Balkhi was a mystic; he was heavily influenced by Mawlana Jalaluddin Balkhi and wrote many poems from prison