لال عِشْق
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دِل کی رَگ رَگ سے ٹَپْکْا ہوا ہے لہُو [ x2 ]
جا بہ جا ، جو بہ جو ، جا بہ جا ، جو بہ جو [ x2 ]
چال دیکھو تو مستی بھری چال ہے [ 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]
حال دیکھو تو بَس حال بے حال ہے
عِشْق تو لال ہے [ x4 ]
دِل کی رَگ رَگ سے ٹَپْکْا ہوا ہے لہُو [ 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]
کون ہَیں لوگ یہ زخم کھائے ہوئے ؟
دِل کی مَیَّت کو سَر پہ اٹھائے ہوئے ؟
آرزویں کَہاں بیچْ کَر آئے ہَیں ؟
آج آئے ہَیں ، پوچھو یہ کْیا لائے ہَیں
اِک مُحَبَّت سے یہ نَہ سمبھالے گئے
اِک مُحَبَّت نَہ اِن سے سنبھالی گئی
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.
زِنْدَگی بَس اُمِّیدوں بھری جیب تھی [ x2 ]
جیسے خالی ملی ، وَیسے خالی گئی
Life was just a pocket full of hopes [x2]
empty as it came, empty it went
کْیا مِلا ہے مُحَبَّت کے بازار سے [ x2 ]
آج پھرتے ہو دِل کو نَقْد ہار کے
یہ مُحَبَّت بھی دُشمن کی ایک چال ہے
عِشْق تو لال ہے [ x4 ]
دِل کی رَگ رَگ سے ٹَپْکْا ہوا ہے لہُو [ 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]
جَب کہا تھا ، " مُحَبَّت گُناہ تو نَہِیں "
پِھر گُناہ کے بَرابَر سزا کیوں ملی ؟
When did I say: "Love is not a sin?"
Why did I receive a punishment equal to sin?
زخم دیتے ہو ، کہتے ہو ، " سیتے رَہو "
جان لے کَر کہو گے کِہ جیتْے رَہو
پیار جَب جَب زمین پَر اُتارا گیا
زِنْدَگی ، تجھ کو صدقے میں وارا گیا
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
پیار زِن٘دَہ رہا مَقْتَلوں میں ، مگر [ x2 ]
پیار جِس نے کِیا ہے وہ مارا گیا
Love stayed alive on the scaffold, but [x2]
the one who loved, was executed
حَدّ یہی ہے تو حَدّ سے گُزر جائیں گے [ x2 ]
عِشْق چاہے گا ، چپ چاپ مر جائیں گے
یہ مُحَبَّت میں نکلی ہوئی فال ہے
عِشْق تو لال ہے [ x4 ]
دِل کی رَگ رَگ سے ٹَپْکْا ہوا ہے لہُو [ 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.
