1 Urdu ashaar / shayari (shers, couplets) by

Ram Avatar Gupta ‘Muztar’

1936-1997,

Najibabad (Uttar Pradesh)

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be-diin hue imaan diya ham ishq mein sab kuchh kho baiThe

aur jin ko samajhte the apna

vo aur kisi ke ho baiThe

moved my faith from god to my beloved

and in love i lost everything

but, who i thought would be mine

ended up being someone else’s

Ram Avatar Gupta ‘Muztar’ (1)

be-deen (1)

without religion

imaan (5)

faith

kho (4)

lose

samajhte (7)

understand, deem

Theme: Loneliness, Separation, & Grief (106)

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