O Love

Playfully romantic, inspiring and occasionally mystical Khalid Hameed Shaida, MD is the author of many popular English translations of the poetry of Persian and Urdu masters. He now dares to present his own English poetry in this volume.

Says Shaida: Myself your servant O let me call And a sense of Justice in me install And me with compassion O please enthrall And make me strong and make me tall But make me loving, most of all O God, O God, O please my God Okay, okay, you may be right But baby it's a beautiful night So let's drink and lets get tight And let's be loving and let's not fight Sure I've loved some girls before But I love you more, a whole lot more Playfully romantic, inspiring and occasionally mystical Khalid Hameed Shaida, MD is the author of many popular English translations of the poetry of Persian and Urdu masters. He now dares to present his own English poetry in this volume.

Indian born translator Khalid Hameed Shaida earned medical degree from Pakistan and practiced medicine in both Canada and the United States. He has translated the great Persian masters, Khusro, Hafiz, Ghalib, and Iqbal in his mother tongue of Urdu with a number of publications and reprints to his credit in Pakistan. In English he has translated the poems of Hafiz (Hafiz, the Voice of God, and Hafiz, Drunk with God), Khusro (Khusro, the Indian Orpheus), and Ghalib (Ghalib, the Indian Beloved), and Faiz ( Faiz, A Wailing Nightingale) and now “Amir Khusro, The Nightingale of India”. He has also published his own English poetry as “O Love, Romantic and Inspirational Poetry of Khalid Hameed Shaida”. In the Kindle book store his "Hafiz, the Voice of God" is the top seller among the books on Hafiz. Currently he and his wife live a quiet life in Friendswood, Texas