लाल इश्क़
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दिल की रग रग से टपका हुआ है लहू [ x2 ]
जा-ब-जा , जू-ब-जू , जा-ब-जा , जू-ब-जू [ x2 ]
चाल देखो तो मस्ती भरी चाल है [ x2 ]
From every vein of the heart, blood has been spilled [x2]
everywhere, in every place [x2]
If you look at my walk, it's a walk full of drunkenness [x2]
हाल देखो तो बस हाल बेहाल है
इश्क़ तो लाल है [ x4 ]
दिल की रग रग से टपका हुआ है लहू [ x2 ]
If you look at my state, it's a calamitous state
For true love is red! [x4]
From every vein of the heart, blood has been spilled [x2]
कौन हैं लोग ये ज़ख़्म खाए हुए ?
दिल की मैयत को सर पे उठाए हुए ?
आरज़ूएँ कहाँ बेच कर आए हैं ?
आज आए हैं , पूछो ये क्या लाए हैं
इक मोहब्बत से ये न संभाले गए
इक मोहब्बत न इन से संभाली गई
Who are those people who have suffered wounds,
who have raised the corpse of the heart upon their heads?
Where have they gone after selling their longings?
Today they have returned, ask what they have brought.
Neither have they been withstood by a single love
nor has a single love been withstood by them.
ज़िन्दगी बस उम्मीदों भरी जेब थी [ x2 ]
जैसे ख़ाली मिली , वैसे ख़ाली गई
Life was just a pocket full of hopes [x2]
empty as it came, empty it went
क्या मिला है मोहब्बत के बाज़ार से [ x2 ]
आज फिरते हो दिल को नक़द हार के
यह मोहब्बत भी दुश्मन की एक चाल है
इश्क़ तो लाल है [ x4 ]
दिल की रग रग से टपका हुआ है लहू [ x2 ]
What has been gained from the marketplace of love? [x2]
Today you wander with money, having lost your heart
This love too is a move by the enemy
True love is red [x4]
From every vein of the heart, blood has dripped [x2]
जब कहा था , " मोहब्बत गुनाह तो नहीं "
फिर गुनाह के बराबर सज़ा क्यूँ मिली ?
When did I say: "Love is not a sin?"
Why did I receive a punishment equal to sin?
ज़ख़्म देते हो , कहते हो , " सीते रहो "
जान ले कर कहोगे कि जीते रहो
प्यार जब-जब ज़मीन पर उतारा गया
ज़िन्दगी , तुझ को सदक़े में वारा गया
You give me wounds and say: "Keep sewing them shut"
After taking my life, you'll say: "Keep living"
Every time love was brought down to the earth
life, I offered it to you as a sacrifice
प्यार ज़िन्दा रहा मक़्तलों में , मगर [ x2 ]
प्यार जिस ने किया है वह मारा गया
Love stayed alive on the scaffold, but [x2]
the one who loved, was executed
हद यही है तो हद से गुज़र जाएँगे [ x2 ]
इश्क़ चाहेगा , चुप-चाप मर जाएँगे
यह मोहब्बत में निकली हुई फ़ाल है
इश्क़ तो लाल है [ x4 ]
दिल की रग रग से टपका हुआ है लहू [ x2 ]
If this is the limit, we'll cross the limit [x2]
If true love so wishes, we'll die in silence
This is an omen obtained in (earthly) love:
For true love is red! [x4]
From every vein of the heart, blood has been spilled [x2]
About this song
- Singers
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Aditi Singh Sharma
- Lyrics
- Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar
Laal Ishq (Hindi: लाल इश्क़, Urdu: لال عِشْق) was created as a theme song for a 2017 Pakistani television drama of the same name, written by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar and originally sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. In 2024, a new version with beautifully recited parts was sung by the Indian female singer Aditi Singh Sharma.
The song uses three different words to refer to the concept of "love": pyaar, of Sanskrit origin — the most general term —; mohabbat, of Arabic origin, which can also mean "affection" or "earthly, human love"; and ishq, also of Arabic origin but widely used in Persian for the ideal of passionate, all-consuming romantic love. Throughout the song, the lyrics describe characteristics of earthly love (mohabbat), only to emphasize that true romantic love (ishq) is red — bleeding in nature, a love that wounds and consumes the lover.
This song is not to be mistaken with another one, also called Laal Ishq, featured in the 2013 Bollywood film "Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela", and performed by Arijit Singh.
