Nida Fazli's Urdu Poem Ittifaq (By Chance) In English Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

We all
by chance
bear different fates.

Religion, faith
country, language are all
such myriad stories by chance.

If before birth
we had any choice,
no boy would have
liked to be born
as a son to his father.

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ittifaq
NIDA FAZLI

ham sab
ek ittifāq ke
muḳhtalif naam haiñ
maz.hab
mulk
zabān
isī ittifāq kī an-ginat kaḌiyāñ haiñ
agar paidā.ish se pahle
intiḳhāb kī ijāzat hotī
to koī laḌkā
apne baap ke ghar meñ paidā honā pasand nahīñ kartā