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2 Urdu ash'ar / shaayari (shers, couplets) containing the word:

tabaah: wasted, ruined

1 / 2: tabaah

sheikh saahab sey rasm-o-raah na kee

shukr hai zindagi

tabaah na kee

i didn’t have the priest

perform rituals and customs

happy that i didn’t

waste my life thus

Faiz Ahmad Faiz (22)

head, priest, learned man

gratitude, thanks

wasted, ruined

Theme: Religion, Reason, & Tradition (68)

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2 / 2: tabaah

har ek raat ke pahlu se din nikalta hai

wo log kaise sanwar jayen

jo tabaah nahin

from every night

a day dawns

how will they ever improve

who have not been destroyed

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raat (9)

night

correct, reform, rectify

wasted, ruined

Theme: Grit, Resilience, & Courage (53)

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