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honeyandelixir · 1 year

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زما د گل په شان صورت وه ستا د بيلتون په خزان مراوی شوی مينه I had a face like flowers But, my love! Separation from you has turned me into autumn

Pashto landay

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pukhtunistan · 1 year

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په دې ځمکه کې څومره خلک مشهور دی،

خو په آسمانونو کښې ناڅرګند دی.

او په دې ځمکه کې څومره ناڅرګند دی،

مګر په آسمانونو کې مشهور دی.

How many people are famous on this earth,

but unknown in the heavens.

And how many are unknown on this earth,

but famous in the heavens.

📸: Jake Simkin

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pashtunology · 1 year

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Women constitute the backbone of Pashtun society and social organisation. Their role is not only limited to home management, they have played a significant role in all fields throughout history. They have stood in the battlefield with men to defend the motherland and if we look into Pashto literature we find a significant contribution of women and their role in society.

Landey, Tapey and Naarey are three forms of unwritten Pashto folk literature, more than half of this fine and heart-rendering poetry is the work of women.

Landay is a traditional Afghan poetic form consisting of a single couplet. The most enchanting landey have been sung by Pashtun women in battlefields and during episodes of love, such as:

پاس په کمر ولاړه ګله!

نصیب د چا يې؟ اوبه زه در خېژومه

Oh flower on the mountain peak,

It is I who water you, God knows who would own you.

Pashtun women also used landey in the battlefield. We come across events in our national history where the singing of a single landey by a woman has proven to be more effective than weapons.

In the battle of Maiwand, when Pashtuns prepared to fight for their country, a Pashtun maiden proudly sent off her lover to the battlefield and dispatched this message to the commander of this patriotic war:

پر ایوب خان مې سلام وایه!

دا دئ جانان مې کومکي در ولېږنه

Convey my greetings to Ayub Khan,

I have sent off my lover to lend a hand.

When the young Pashtun returns triumphant from war, his lover greets him as such:

د خېره راغلې! په خېر راشې!

چې د دښمن په مخ کې خړ نه شوې مئينه

Welcome! Welcome home, thank God,

You were not humbled before the enemy.

[See photos for more landeys]

Other parts of folk literature are Naara in stories and Gharra in the national dance called Attan and Sundarey (songs) recited in weddings. Most of the Naaras and wedding songs have been authored by women. We’ll look into those in future posts. Stay tuned!

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Source: Prof Habibi articles

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j4jml · 9 months

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"Come! Become the flower of my garden so I could water you daily with my eyes". - Pashto Landay

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herprettyreverie · 2 months

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"Do not fall in love with wanderers, you will drown your heart in sorrow and they will leave."

-Pashto Landay

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poeticallypashtun · 4 years

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Sta ghamoona pa zargee ki garzawooma. Sta deedan para tol jehan ba wagarzama.

Beghyaar da sta wakht na teerizee, zra mi khuzezee rabandi shpa na sabakezee.

Stargi me sri di, makh mi thor sho, naseeb mo khor sho. Chi makh di ranawarawo pa zwani bandi mi woor sho.

Khair da za ka woos qurban shum za ba khwashal wom, Akhpal izaat aw akhpal pashto sara ba laar wom.

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I carry your worries in my heart, I'd walk the whole earth to meet you.

Without you time goes past slowly, my heart aches as the night takes forever to turn to day.

My eyes are red, my face has darkened, my fate is ruined. When you turned your face from my body was on fire.

It does matter if I die now I will still be happy, because I'll still have my honour and my pashto when I go.

- Abdul Rashid

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ineffable-ne · 3 years

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Che gulab me pe kar nawo tol jahan rata sparle sho,

Chi gulab me pe kar sho har yaw gul rata azghe sho.

#pashto #shayer #landay #pakhtoon #pakhto #sherona #sher #afghan #afghanquote #afghanculture

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malghalari · 3 years

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په اردو مې ژبه نه چلي صاحبه

په پښتو خبرې اوکړم اجازت دې؟

[pa urdu mi jaba na chali sahiba,

pa pukhto khabari ukram ijazat de?]

urdu doesn't go quite well with my tongue,

do you mind, good sir, if i speak in pashto?

—hamza baba

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aftaabmagazine · 3 years

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لنډۍ Landay

Traditional Pashto Couplets

Living in this land of exile is raging my heart,

May God let me return to the foot of my tall mountains!

If you did not know how to love,

Why then did you awaken my sleeping heart?

Tears are streaming down my face,

I cannot forget Kabul’s snow-topped mountains.

* These are selected landays from “Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women’s Poetry” by Sayd Bahodine Majrouh

Landays began among nomads and farmers. Shared around a fire, sung after a day in the fields or at a wedding, poems were a popular form of entertainment. These kinds of gatherings are now rare: forty years of chaos and conflict have driven millions of people from their homes. —Eliza Griswold

I Am the Beggar of the World, Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan

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honeyandelixir · 2 years

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خاونده سل ځله ژوندراكړې چې دجانان په مينه سل ځله مړشمه May God give me life 100 times, So I perish a 100 times for my lover

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pukhtunistan · 1 year

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