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i feel like a mini scholar myself

aadaab arz hai

nice only 10% in 😭

https://pastebin.com/5n6EXqg1
uffff took me ages to realise it wasnt letting me post because i used the word exploited. gotta finish this soon guyz

40% done. The imagery was fun at the start, it's boring now. Imagine reading so much poetry with the same recurrent tropes and meter. There's no uniqueness anymore! Iqbal doesn't call himself a poet anyways, and he says in the preface as well poetry is not the goal of this masnavi. Whatever be, the message is good but the execution is now getting monotonous.

almost 1/3 of the way! reading the persian of iqbal is somehow easier than trying to understand faiz's abstract urdu poems. it makes sense. iqbal's more literal, not twisting and complex. hes just presenting his concept. if i had to rate abstractness and beauty in a list, id put faiz as a more beautiful abstract poet than ghalib, and ghalib's VERY complex, but i find him easy peasy ngl https://pastebin.com/dRzN8q9M

baby shark do do do do
mommy shark do do do do. sometimes we all need a bit of brainrot

https://pastebin.com/wqDvUftJ
25% lets go

thoughts: https://pastebin.com/M3NHxU0c

link to first part: https://pastebin.com/EKSE7vQR

Ghatya

ہوں گرفتارِ کمیں گاہِ تغافل کہ جہاں
خوابِ صیّاد سے پرواز گرانی مانگے
Ghalib obv
just a fancy way to say the poet is a (fake/pretending to be?) ignorant and wants to remain so since the state of ignorance is blissful.

Anyhow, Buddhism seems like an interesting religion. In fact it's a religion of no-religion. 🤲 Khuda jaanay Ashbar kahan hoga in 5 years

آزمودم شیخِ لاهوری شبی
An overview and my opinion of it:
https://pastebin.com/EKSE7vQR

"Everything that cometh into being passeth away" The Buddha's last words. 🙏All existence is transitory

susraal mein jo paadon (fart) to maikay mein ho khabar
ik ishtihaar nand hai, ik ishtihaar saas

'Rangin' qasam hai teri hi, hoon mailay sar se mein (=on my days)
mat khol, kar ke minnat o zaari, izaar-band

kaali upar thi charhi, nichay thi gori annaa
The black one was on top, Nanny, and the fair one underneath

An interesting essay on lesbianism and eroticism in Urdu poetry. A very good archive of language too!

ham ne sab sher meñ sañvāre the
ham se jitne suḳhan tumhāre the

rañg-o-ḳhushbū ke husn-o-ḳhūbī ke
tum se the jitne isti.āre the

tere qaul-o-qarār se pahle
apne kuchh aur bhī sahāre the

jab vo la.al-o-gohar hisāb kiye
jo tire ġham ne dil pe vaare the

mere dāman meñ aa gire saare
jitne tasht-e-falak meñ taare the

umr-e-jāved kī duā karte
'faiz' itne vo kab hamāre the
😍😻