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2 Urdu couplets and shers with dafn

dafn(m): burial

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main apne jism ke andar na dafn ho jaaun

mujhe wajuud ke girte hue

makaan se nikaal

let me not be buried

within my own body

free me from this

crumbling house of existence

jism (m) (6)

body

inside

dafn (m) (2)

burial

wajuud (m) (1)

existence

to fall down

makaan (m) (5)

house

Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (126)

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2 / 2: dafn

kitna hai badnaseeb 'zafar’dafn ke liye

do gaz zameen bhi na mili

kuu-e-yaar mein

how wretched is your fate, ‘zafar’

that for your burial

you couldn’t get two yards

in the lane of the beloved

Bahadur Shah Zafar (9)

unfortunate

dafn (m) (2)

burial

gaz (m) (1)

yard

zameen (m) (13)

ground, earth, land

kuu (m) (1)

lane

yaar (m) (19)

friend, beloved

Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (126)

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