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almost over. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I think every poet has his bads and goods. Take Ghalib, as much as I like him, some of his ghazals and shers are just MEH and can be discarded. As much as Faiz's a good romantic poet, some of them are just meaningless. And the list goes on. So with Iqbal, I like some, I don't like some. Today's read was comparatively much better. I wanna finish and move on from him now. Please end soon.

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You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. ~summary

I miss reading actual poetry tho... this isnt poetry... or at least in the classical sense. Id rather read My GOAT Tahzeeb Hafi instead of Iqbal in Persian. Iqbal's Urdu poetry is pretty neat tho, but again its not poetry in the sense we know of today, that is the ashiqi mashuqi wala chakkar.

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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

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

آزمودم شیخِ لاهوری شبی
An overview and my opinion of it:
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