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JODI BHESTE JAITE CHAO

- Duel of Poets
If You Wish to Go to Heaven

SHISHWA (Disciple)
If you wish to go to heaven


Keep fear of Allah in your heart

GURU (Teacher)
If you want to be close to Allah


Keep love within your heart

SHISHWA (Disciple)
I'm just your daughter's age


I'll assume the side of shariah


And take an anti-Sufi stance


Don't take what I say to heart


You ignore the Holy Scriptures - 


What kind of Muslims are you?

Why are the mullahs


always angry with you? 


Keep fear of Allah in your heart

GURU (Teacher)
You need a measure of wisdom


to grasp the Koran and Hadith


How can half-read mullahs


interpret the intricate Scriptures?

They preach to others


without knowing the texts


The dogmatic mullahs
make

their living from deception


Well fed and fattened, they use


their strength to abuse us


Keep love within your heart

SHISHWA (Disciple)
You Sufis chant Allah's name


Ignoring creed and prayer

You smoke pot during Ramadan


With the excuse of meditation


What kind of Islamic creed

Sanctions this immorality?


Keep fear of Allah in your heart

GURU (Teacher)
Just showing off your rituals


Is that true namaz?


Namaz is meditation, 
To attain tranquility

Fasting is self control


How many really follow that?


They skip their meals by day


And eat double by night

We don't lust for heaven


And have no fear of hell

Keep love within your heart

SHISHWA (Disciple)
You don't go on pilgrimage


You don't give charity


What do you have against


Ritual sacrifice?


Why should Muslims


Quaver at the sight of blood?

GURU (Teacher)
You're asked to sacrifice


Your dearest ones


Are these cows and goats


Your most beloved?

Nothing is dearer than yourself


The supreme sacrifice is self-sacrifice


If you can, restrain your senses


Control your passions


Keep love within your heart

SHISHWA (Disciple)
You roam around with women


Without wedding them


You sing and dance together

Without shame

The outside world is for men


The woman's place is at home


Keep fear of Allah in your heart

GURU (Teacher)
Woman is the seed of life


The source of creation


Those who believe in inequality


Lock women into marriage

Woman is the vessel of love


Woman is the Mother


Without Woman we would not


Come into being

(Together)
You need both man and woman


For procreation and creation


Keep love inside your heart

If you want to be close to Allah


Keep love inside your heart