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ashk aañkhoñ meñ kab nahiiñ aataa / lohuu aataa hai jab nahiiñ aataa
When do tears not come to my eyes? When they do not come, blood comes.
— Mir Taqi Mir میر تقی میرؔ
The Dream of Zuleykha, c. 1770
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(۳۱) باورچی خانے اور کھانوں کی ایجاد و ترقی کے متعلق ہم کافی درجے تک لکھ چکے ہیں۔ لیکن اتنا اور کہنا چاہتے ہیں کہ یہاں اور عموماً ایشیائی ممالک میں خوش مزگی پیدا کرنے کے ساتھ اس بات کی بھی کوشش اہمیت کے ساتھ کی جاتی تھی کہ لطافت ذوق کے ساتھ غذاؤں میں اعلیٰ…
“(31) We have written about the kitchen and the invention and advance of dishes to a considerable extent. But we wish to say this much more: here, and generally in Asian countries, along with producing good taste, effort was also made with great seriousness to ensure that, with refinement of taste, foods should have…”
Guzishta Lucknow (Lucknow of the Past: The Last Example of Eastern Civilisation in India)
Abdul Halim Sharar · Cream, the Dining Cloth and the Abdar-khana
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jab rone baiThtaa huuñ tab kyaa kasar rahe hai / ruumaal do do din tak juuñ abr-e-tar rahe hai
When I sit down to weep, what is left lacking? For two days at a time my handkerchief stays like a wet cloud.
— Mir Taqi Mir میر تقی میرؔ
Yusuf and Zulaykha meeting, c. 1764
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jis sar ko Guruur aaj hai yaañ taajvarii kaa / kal us pe yahiiñ shor hai phir nauha-garii kaa
The head that today is proud here of its crown, tomorrow, here, over it will rise the noise of mourning.
— Mir Taqi Mir میر تقی میرؔ
Bhairava Raga, early 1800s
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اس اشاعت کے بارے میں یہ خواجہ الطاف حسین حالیؔ (۱۸۳۷ء تا ۱۹۱۴ء) کی "مجالس النساء" کا مکمل اردو متن اور انگریزی ترجمہ ہے۔ اردو متن کا ماخذ: "مجالس النساء"، حالی پریس، پانی پت، ۱۹۲۴ء (۱۳۴۲ھ)؛ اسٹیٹ سنٹرل لائبریری، حیدرآباد کا نسخہ، جسے ڈیجیٹل لائبریری آف انڈیا…
“About This Edition This is a complete Urdu text and English translation of *Majalis-un-Nissa* ("Assemblies of Women") by Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali (1837–1914). Source of the Urdu text: *Majalis-un-Nissa*, Hali Press, Panipat, 1924 (1342 AH); the copy in the State Central Library, Hyderabad, scanned by the Digital…”
Majalis-un-Nissa (Assemblies of Women)
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Ghalib, the soul has come to like its pain: the heart, beating by fits and starts, has stopped.
— Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib مرزا اسد اللہ خاں غالبؔ
Layla and Majnun in the wilderness with animals, from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, c. 1590–1600
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