❝This distance is such a strange story
When near, you don't meet; when far, you are remembered❞
When near, you don't meet; when far, you are remembered❞
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1935–present📍 Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Bashir Badr
بشیر بدر
GhazalRomantic Poetry
104Shayaris
12Categories
2659.0kTotal Likes
7759kTotal Views
📖 About the Poet
Bashir Badr is one of the most widely read contemporary Urdu ghazal poets. Known for his simple yet deeply moving verses on love and loss, he has a unique ability to express complex emotions in everyday language. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Shri.
📚 Famous Works
AahatEk Muddat SeMohabbat
✨ Famous Couplet
"उम्र भर ग़ालिब यही भूल करता रहा, धूल चेहरे पर थी और आइना साफ़ करता रहा।"— Bashir Badr
✍️ Shayaris by Bashir Badr(104)
❝There must have been some compulsions
No one is unfaithful without reason❞
No one is unfaithful without reason❞
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🔗❝Friendship with loyalty,
Is the only true friendship.❞
Is the only true friendship.❞
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🔗❝People break themselves building a single home,
You show no mercy burning down entire settlements.❞
You show no mercy burning down entire settlements.❞
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🔗❝Memories of a friend,
Are fragrant like flowers.❞
Are fragrant like flowers.❞
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🔗❝When a friend is with you,
Every path seems easy.❞
Every path seems easy.❞
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🔗❝Bashir said,
Friendship is a river that never dries.❞
Friendship is a river that never dries.❞
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🔗❝I thought only you would not understand me,
But in this world, everyone turned out to be faithless.❞
But in this world, everyone turned out to be faithless.❞
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🔗❝In the memory of a friend,
Who knows how many tears were shed.❞
Who knows how many tears were shed.❞
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🔗❝Let the light of your memories stay with me
Who knows in which alley the evening of life may fall❞
Who knows in which alley the evening of life may fall❞
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🔗❝If you pull away your hand and leave, then go,
But a mark will remain on the hem of my garment.❞
But a mark will remain on the hem of my garment.❞
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🔗❝A friend is one who has the courage,
To speak the truth about your mistakes.❞
To speak the truth about your mistakes.❞
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🔗❝A friend's love,
Is the purest after a mother's love.❞
Is the purest after a mother's love.❞
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🔗❝Bashir understood,
A friend is one who is with you in every situation.❞
A friend is one who is with you in every situation.❞
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🔗❝People break themselves apart building just one home,
you show no mercy while burning whole settlements down.❞
you show no mercy while burning whole settlements down.❞
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🔗❝There must have been some compulsions,
no one becomes unfaithful without a reason.❞
no one becomes unfaithful without a reason.❞
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🔗❝They met me on the roadway in such a way
As if parting was already their habit❞
As if parting was already their habit❞
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🔗❝When everyone left,
My friend held on.❞
My friend held on.❞
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🔗❝Let the light of your memories stay with me,
Who knows in which lane the evening of life may arrive.❞
Who knows in which lane the evening of life may arrive.❞
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🔗❝Let the light of your memories stay with me,
Who knows in which alley the evening of life may fall.❞
Who knows in which alley the evening of life may fall.❞
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🔗❝There must have been some compulsions, no one is faithless for nothing,
The one who separated was mine — an enemy never parts this way.❞
The one who separated was mine — an enemy never parts this way.❞
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🔗❝That they came to our home is God's wonder,
Sometimes we look at them, sometimes at our own home.❞
Sometimes we look at them, sometimes at our own home.❞
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🔗🤝Dosti⭐ Featured
❝Do not meet me like a stranger ever,
I too was once counted among your friends.❞
I too was once counted among your friends.❞
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🔗❝Friendship has no age,
It lasts from childhood to old age.❞
It lasts from childhood to old age.❞
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🔗❝Life is a book that we read,
Some pages make us laugh, some make us weep.❞
Some pages make us laugh, some make us weep.❞
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🔗❝It is true that you give me pain
It is equally true that without you there is no peace❞
It is equally true that without you there is no peace❞
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🔗❝That which came for just a moment
Its memory lasted a lifetime❞
Its memory lasted a lifetime❞
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🔗❝Hearing a friend's words,
Hope awakens in the heart.❞
Hope awakens in the heart.❞
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🔗❝Feud with me fully, but leave room enough this way,
So if we become friends again, no shame need stay.❞
So if we become friends again, no shame need stay.❞
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🔗❝What Badr had said about love
That saying seems true even today❞
That saying seems true even today❞
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🔗❝A friend is that mirror,
Which shows the true image.❞
Which shows the true image.❞
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🔗❝Even if there is a little distance in friendship,
The hearts still stay close.❞
The hearts still stay close.❞
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🔗❝The bond of friendship,
Connects hearts.❞
Connects hearts.❞
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🔗❝People break themselves apart building a single home,
yet you show no mercy while burning whole settlements down.❞
yet you show no mercy while burning whole settlements down.❞
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🔗❝Be my enemy fully, but leave this much room,
that if we ever become friends, we need not feel ashamed.❞
that if we ever become friends, we need not feel ashamed.❞
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🔗❝They say every wish is granted through prayer
try it just once, ask, and see for yourself❞
try it just once, ask, and see for yourself❞
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🔗❝For years now, some dear ones of mine have lived in this very city
They know nothing of me, and I know nothing of where they are❞
They know nothing of me, and I know nothing of where they are❞
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🔗❝Those moments in friendship,
Are the most precious in life.❞
Are the most precious in life.❞
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🔗❝Be my enemy fully, but leave room enough,
that if we ever become friends, we need not feel ashamed.❞
that if we ever become friends, we need not feel ashamed.❞
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🔗❝Being separated from a friend,
Is like a wound on the heart.❞
Is like a wound on the heart.❞
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🔗❝Talking with a friend,
Brings peace to the heart.❞
Brings peace to the heart.❞
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🔗❝Be my enemy fully, but leave this much room
That if we ever turn friends, there's no shame to assume❞
That if we ever turn friends, there's no shame to assume❞
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🔗🤝Dosti⭐ Featured
❝True friendship has no room for pretence,
true friendship knows no distance or divide.
Whoever meets from the heart is a friend,
the rest are merely acquaintances set aside.❞
true friendship knows no distance or divide.
Whoever meets from the heart is a friend,
the rest are merely acquaintances set aside.❞
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🔗❝A friend is needed at all times,
In happiness as well as in sorrow.❞
In happiness as well as in sorrow.❞
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🔗❝Let the light of your memories stay with me,
who knows in which lane life's evening may fall.❞
who knows in which lane life's evening may fall.❞
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🔗❝Friendship is not what speaks from the tongue,
Friendship is what speaks through the eyes.❞
Friendship is what speaks through the eyes.❞
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🔗❝My world is filled with your memory
Where can I go where you are not❞
Where can I go where you are not❞
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🔗❝Bashir wrote,
The fragrance of a friend comes in every season.❞
The fragrance of a friend comes in every season.❞
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🔗❝In trying to forget you, I remembered you more
The one I wanted to forget came to mind even more❞
The one I wanted to forget came to mind even more❞
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🔗❝The light of my memories of you stays always by my side,
even in this dark life, one small lamp remains lit within.❞
even in this dark life, one small lamp remains lit within.❞
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🔗❝When children wake startled from unfinished sleep and cry,
Mothers must be tending the hearth as darkness falls.❞
Mothers must be tending the hearth as darkness falls.❞
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🔗❝In trying to forget, you are remembered more
The one I want to forget comes even closer❞
The one I want to forget comes even closer❞
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🔗❝In loneliness your thought comes to me
Like a dry tree remembers the rain❞
Like a dry tree remembers the rain❞
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🔗❝The colours of friendship are one of a kind,
sometimes a quarrel, sometimes all love.
But true friends are only those,
who reconcile even after a shove.❞
sometimes a quarrel, sometimes all love.
But true friends are only those,
who reconcile even after a shove.❞
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🔗❝Those who love you will not be few,
But in your gathering, I will not be there.❞
But in your gathering, I will not be there.❞
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🔗❝To sit beside you is itself a prayer,
to listen to your voice is worship too.
With your presence in this world,
heaven itself is nothing new.❞
to listen to your voice is worship too.
With your presence in this world,
heaven itself is nothing new.❞
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🔗❝Some people settle into the heart and stay,
some people shatter the heart and walk away.❞
some people shatter the heart and walk away.❞
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🔗❝Should I speak what my heart holds or stay silent,
what should I do in this night's loneliness?
I keep thinking only about you endlessly —
what should I engage myself in — this is my distress.❞
what should I do in this night's loneliness?
I keep thinking only about you endlessly —
what should I engage myself in — this is my distress.❞
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🔗❝I am certain of my own existence because,
Someone acknowledges the reality of my pain.❞
Someone acknowledges the reality of my pain.❞
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🔗❝All his life Ghalib kept making this one mistake —
the dust was on his face yet he kept cleaning the mirror.❞
the dust was on his face yet he kept cleaning the mirror.❞
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🔗❝Let the light of your memories stay along with me,
who knows in which lane life's evening will come to be.❞
who knows in which lane life's evening will come to be.❞
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🔗❝Even the moon blushes when you smile,
the stars bow down to your grace.
So beautiful is your every gesture,
even the poet finds no words for your face.❞
the stars bow down to your grace.
So beautiful is your every gesture,
even the poet finds no words for your face.❞
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🔗❝I always carry the light of my memories with me
Whenever darkness comes, I burn it like a lamp❞
Whenever darkness comes, I burn it like a lamp❞
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🔗🤝Dosti⭐ Featured
❝In friendship there is no account to keep —
no giving, no taking, just being together.
Whoever met heart to heart once —
is remembered every time.❞
no giving, no taking, just being together.
Whoever met heart to heart once —
is remembered every time.❞
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🔗❝A friend is one who turns your weakness,
Into strength.❞
Into strength.❞
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🔗❝Some friends are those who meet at the soul level —
no need for words; the eyes do all the talking.
The bond of friendship is so priceless —
it does not waver even in life's storms.❞
no need for words; the eyes do all the talking.
The bond of friendship is so priceless —
it does not waver even in life's storms.❞
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🔗❝Whenever trouble came,
My friend showed the way.❞
My friend showed the way.❞
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🔗❝People break in the hope of something —
after you left, I too broke.
But your memories remain —
my connection with them has still not been severed.❞
after you left, I too broke.
But your memories remain —
my connection with them has still not been severed.❞
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🔗❝A friend is not one who is there in good times,
a friend is one who stays in hardship's hour.
Everyone draws near in moments of joy,
being present in pain is friendship's true power.❞
a friend is one who stays in hardship's hour.
Everyone draws near in moments of joy,
being present in pain is friendship's true power.❞
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🔗❝People break themselves building one home —
you feel no pity burning whole towns down.❞
you feel no pity burning whole towns down.❞
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🔗❝Stopping those who leave is not possible —
but forgetting their memories is hard.
This is love's custom —
whoever leaves never truly leaves the heart.❞
but forgetting their memories is hard.
This is love's custom —
whoever leaves never truly leaves the heart.❞
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🔗❝Those who part do not meet again —
this is the world's ancient custom.
But those who settle in the heart do not leave —
no matter how many years pass.❞
this is the world's ancient custom.
But those who settle in the heart do not leave —
no matter how many years pass.❞
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🔗❝I was sure of my existence,
As long as someone called my name.❞
As long as someone called my name.❞
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🔗❝When she touched me, lightning fell from the sky,
When she looked, the whole world stood still.
She holds this art in her love —
One glance of hers gives a thousand lives.❞
When she looked, the whole world stood still.
She holds this art in her love —
One glance of hers gives a thousand lives.❞
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🔗❝You may or may not remember —
but I have not forgotten you.
Every night your thought comes —
I have not slept without you.❞
but I have not forgotten you.
Every night your thought comes —
I have not slept without you.❞
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🔗❝People break themselves building a home —
you feel no pity burning settlements.
My heart had found yours — but the heart broke —
this was not in my share of fate.❞
you feel no pity burning settlements.
My heart had found yours — but the heart broke —
this was not in my share of fate.❞
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🔗❝When she asked for whom do you live,
I said — for you, only for you.
Life does exist beyond you, they say —
But that is not life — just a long road.❞
I said — for you, only for you.
Life does exist beyond you, they say —
But that is not life — just a long road.❞
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🔗❝They came to our home — it is God's wonder,
Sometimes I look at them, sometimes at my home.❞
Sometimes I look at them, sometimes at my home.❞
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🔗❝Your memory came to me at evening,
when the sky draped a red shawl.
The sun set, just as you set on me,
and the darkness of night spread its pall.❞
when the sky draped a red shawl.
The sun set, just as you set on me,
and the darkness of night spread its pall.❞
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🔗❝There must have been some compulsions —
No one becomes faithless without reason.
When pain crosses its limit,
Even tears do not fall silently.❞
No one becomes faithless without reason.
When pain crosses its limit,
Even tears do not fall silently.❞
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🔗❝Just as morning comes after night,
happiness comes after sorrow.
The art of mending a broken heart
comes only through time and love.❞
happiness comes after sorrow.
The art of mending a broken heart
comes only through time and love.❞
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🔗❝Whoever has lived alone as I have,
will know as I do the cost of solitude.
Companions leave — that is the rule of this journey —
but learn to live with yourself — that one will always be there.❞
will know as I do the cost of solitude.
Companions leave — that is the rule of this journey —
but learn to live with yourself — that one will always be there.❞
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🔗❝There is sorrow in parting — that is true,
but I must keep living on.
Yes the heart has broken — I know,
but I must keep moving, keep walking on.❞
but I must keep living on.
Yes the heart has broken — I know,
but I must keep moving, keep walking on.❞
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🔗❝Being with you feels beautiful and right,
Living without you feels impossibly tight.
This bond that exists between us two —
More necessary than breath, yet so delicate too.❞
Living without you feels impossibly tight.
This bond that exists between us two —
More necessary than breath, yet so delicate too.❞
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🔗❝Those paths I once walked alongside you —
I walk those same roads alone now.
Your memory accompanies every step I take,
searching for you everywhere I go.❞
I walk those same roads alone now.
Your memory accompanies every step I take,
searching for you everywhere I go.❞
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🔗❝A friend who stays when you are breaking apart,
that friend is not a friend but a river wide.
The one who holds you when you are sinking,
that is not a person — that is God by your side.❞
that friend is not a friend but a river wide.
The one who holds you when you are sinking,
that is not a person — that is God by your side.❞
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🔗❝I kept living in the hope of meeting you,
laying my eyes on the path you would take.
Then one day you returned back to me,
that moment I kept hidden in my heart's lake.❞
laying my eyes on the path you would take.
Then one day you returned back to me,
that moment I kept hidden in my heart's lake.❞
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🔗❝Don't offer a friendship of pretence in matters of love
If you won't embrace me, don't even bother to shake my hand❞
If you won't embrace me, don't even bother to shake my hand❞
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🔗❝Sacrifice yourself upon someone's smile—
and if you can, borrow a little of someone's pain.❞
and if you can, borrow a little of someone's pain.❞
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🔗❝Life has tested and tormented me so,
But surrender is not something I know.
Each wound I have nursed with care,
And walking forward is all I wear.❞
But surrender is not something I know.
Each wound I have nursed with care,
And walking forward is all I wear.❞
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🔗💔Dard⭐ Featured
❝They parted in such a way, whether anyone comes or not,
In everything I do, their memory cannot be forgot.❞
In everything I do, their memory cannot be forgot.❞
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🔗❝Heart finds its way to heart, not through words.
The love that is real says everything without being said.❞
The love that is real says everything without being said.❞
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🔗❝The dreams that live in your eyes are my life,
The joy that shines in your smile is my life.❞
The joy that shines in your smile is my life.❞
👁️5.9k
🔗❝One glimpse of you is enough to gladden the heart.
One word from you is enough to beautify life.❞
One word from you is enough to beautify life.❞
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🔗❝The one I seek lives somewhere within me,
You are the one who must unite me with myself.❞
You are the one who must unite me with myself.❞
👁️5.8k
🔗❝Those who love may not be few,
But none will ever be like you.❞
But none will ever be like you.❞
👁️5.7k
🔗❝I thought that love would rain down in the monsoon,
But what fell from the sky were sparks of fire.❞
But what fell from the sky were sparks of fire.❞
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🔗❝Meeting them gave life a new direction,
After they left, life lost its way.❞
After they left, life lost its way.❞
👁️5.7k
🔗❝What of his coming, what of his going away,
Truly brave is the heart that lives on anyway.❞
Truly brave is the heart that lives on anyway.❞
👁️5.1k
🔗❝Some questions have no answer, some pains have no expression.
Life just kept smiling and said nothing.❞
Life just kept smiling and said nothing.❞
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🔗❝When you smile, the sun rises; when you speak, music flows.
As long as you are with me, life remains wonderfully good.❞
As long as you are with me, life remains wonderfully good.❞
👁️5.1k
🔗❝The age is heartless; here no one belongs to another.
All are engrossed in themselves — no one cares for anyone.❞
All are engrossed in themselves — no one cares for anyone.❞
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🔗❝With your hand in mine we walk along,
You are my companion on this journey long.❞
You are my companion on this journey long.❞
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🔗❝Where has man paused in today's age — noise everywhere, but the heart is silent.
Ghazal is the language that understands the pain man cannot put into words.❞
Ghazal is the language that understands the pain man cannot put into words.❞
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