Liar (Poem By Kazi Nazrul Islam) Poem by Sayeed Abubakar

Who torments your mind for telling a lie?
Sin does not touch him who tells a lie
On behalf of truth.
The whole truth does not consists in
Only speaking the truth;
Even by telling lies, we can be truthful.
Speaking the truth is not a great thing;
How many people are veracious?
How many truthful have sacrificed
Their lives for truth?

Those who are more fearful and more infirm
In mind are more priggish, the more
They pretend to speak the truth.
The heroes veracious, who are adorable
For their truth-loving, got beheaded laughing
For the sake of truth.
Perhaps, they uttered many lies
Throughout their lives;
Still they are heroes—they sacrificed their lives
To protect the truth.

Who is he, weighing the truth like a grocer?
He thinks, what a great work he has done,
How prudent he is!
I ask, o the truth-trader:
Is truth rice or pulse?
You will rebuke
For decreasing the weight of truth.
The information of a truth-trader is as follows:
Such a measure of truth has decreased
In the life of that hero!
O my God! Who come here?
They all weigh truth and they count too.
I burst out into laughter seeing that
They have bound truth with ten words.

All the aunts of truth came
Carrying scales and ropes;
Weighing, they filled sacks
And counting, they bound goats.
Comrade, don't listen to the debate
On elephants and horses,
if you bear truthfulness within you,
Tell lies carelessly.

30.6.2017 Sirajganj