Tajikan -- Memories of Khorasan-balkh herat kabul ghazni zabul samarqand bukhara tajikistan panjshir kapisa parwan logar gardez badakhshan mashhad ferdowsi etc. Memories of Khorasan Man is forgetful But the land remembers all Each battle, each victory, each gain, each loss Every birth, every death, every step, every fall Memories engraved in the wind Calling for a time long past and for a people long separated There were days of glory And there were lands made for kings History and blood mixes in stories In tales of conquests and destruction The victor tells the world what to remember And the victims are shown what their descendants have lost The outline of a faded empire Mirrors the soul of a Tajik His heart divided the way of his homeland Scattered pieces across rivers and mountains Across wide plains and borders Though man forgets A Tajik should always remember The land that stands under his feet Remains as a ghost of days departed but not sealed If he listens, he will hear Bukhara talk of a time of knowledge When once it stood as a source of light Home of physicians, historians, poets, and artists It was Bukhara that shielded Avicenna as he completed his work And its beauty and abundance of culture Overwhelmed the likes of Rumi and Rudaki Samarqand, a city of legends A turquoise gem that awed even Alexander the Great With a majestic reign that recalls days of ancient civilization Its beauty weaves an enchanted spell That can never be forgotten Herat, the pearl of Khorasan One that shines even in the face of peril Where literature flourished And a great Queen, Gawarshad, rests in peace Ruins of ancient structures hints of a time of virtue Now recognized only behind the eyes of its people Balkh, Bactra, Bactria, Bukhti Cry out any of its names And find refuge in its sanctity. Whispers of love and loss like a deep collective sigh From Rabi'a, Daqiqi, Anvari The peaceful words of Zoroaster carry on it the wind Finding a home in the hearts of the people The heart of Rumi beats strongly yet under its earth And more so it lives from the sacrifices made From its beloved son Zabiullah Whose essence is with those who have also fallen Kabul, shielded between mountains That preserved its grace and pleasures And though times will still tell Of an evil that shook its security The soul of such a land will never shatter Panjshir, the valley of hope and greatness Where Massoud the lion once roamed Between its peaks that reach toward a beautiful heaven The embodiment of a bittersweet resistance These are fields and mountains and rivers That creates all that is good in life An empire that was magnanimous in nature And steadfast in enlightenment Has the scent that appealed benevolence wondered too far? Has the sun set on this glorious site? Where does the heart of a Tajik lay now? This is the act of remembrance Echoing deep inside of him These are the ashes of a phoenix waiting to arise And above all, this Khorasan was his before the world laid claim to it Tajek tajik tajiki tajikan tajikam tadjik tajiki tajikistani khurasan khorasan khorasani Tajikistan Samarqand Bukhara Balkh mazar Tajik Mawlana Mavlana Jalaludin Balkhi Rumi Tajek khurasan khorasan khorasani Tajikistan Samarqand Bukhara Balkh mazar Herat Bamiyan Kabul parwan salang kapisa panjshir ghazni takhar badakhshan samangan tajqorghan kandahar laghman jalalabad khost paktia paktika zazai zadran mangal barkzai noorzai sadozai paghman abdali parwan baghlan samangan takhar badakhshan nimroz urozgan bamiyan ghor farah helmand herat ismail khan atta mohammed noor zabiullah safiullah masood qanooni fahim mohaqiq abdullah malalai joya kabul hazara hazaragi pashto pakhto pashtun pashtoon pushtun iran afghanistan afghanistani afghan afghani persian farsi parsi dari poetry ahmad shah masood massoud karzai laghman jalalabad kunar ariana tv tolo tv khorasan tv farhad darya habib qadiri ahmad wali ahmad zahir sarban zahir hovida Howaida ehsan aman said omar qarsak panjshir balkh77 zazaitoor gardez11 gulagha iran persia persian turkey turk kurd baloch iranian irani rumi uk us london new york fremont bukhara samarqand tajikistan tajiki dushanbe tajkand tajqurghan kalakan kalakani