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Na sawal e vasl , na arz e ghum , na hikayatein , na shikayatein

Tere ehd mei dil e zaar ke sabhi ikhtiyar chale gaye

- Faiz Ahmed Faiz

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It's been ages I haven't posted a ghazal

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Why are you the way you are

One of the asks rotting in the folder that I would have answered if I were a poet.

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Aap kahan se hain also aapki age kya hai ?

Lots of love 🩷

:)

Pakistan☪︎

Shukria♡

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Hi what's up

Eating ♡heart-shaped cookies♡ everything feels good now.

Pmsing made me hate on everyone around me just a few minutes ago. Part of girlhood ig.

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LOVE the new theme especially the roses

Hehe Thank you! 🥀

It was a hard decision tho I loved the girls.

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Khamosh Ae Dil! Bhari Mehfil Mein Chillana Nahin Acha

Adab Pehla Qareena Hai Mohabbat Ke Qareenon Mein

Silent, O Heart! Crying in the full assembly is not good

Decorum is the most important etiquette among the ways of Love

- Allama Iqbal

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15 August 1952:

Your letter came today. I feel happy today after a mild attack of a blue period lasting over a few days. It must be the weather. It is more like spring than summer. The mornings are vaguely cool and disturbing like the first breath of love and the sun in the early hours brings more colour than heat. In the evenings the breeze seems to bring the breath of the seas and the skies seem to close not on drab prison walls but on distant palm- fringed beaches. And it is sad like all beauty that is within your sight and beyond your grasp—like all beauty that you know to be an illusion.

An excerpt from Faiz’s Letters to Alys (Saleebein Meray Dareechay Mein)

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Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

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𝖠𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝖺-𝖫𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖲𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 | 𝖨𝖦: 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺_𝖺𝗋𝗍

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The lost art of Eid greeting cards

From the Priya Paul Collection, New Delhi.

Right: A floral Eid card. Published by Hafiz Qamruddin & Sons, Lahore and posted from Lahore on 24 December 1935. From the Priya Paul Collection, New Delhi. Left: Eid greetings stamped on an image printed in Europe. Basically it was European-made Christmas cards which were modified and used as Eid cards. From the Priya Paul Collection, New Delhi.

Right "Guldasta-e Eid" – title of the chapbook published by Rashid ul Khairi in Mahboob Al Matabah, Delhi.

One of the more popular Eid greeting cards.

Especially for children. Eid card produced by Shabbar T. Corp. Bombay. From Omar Khan's collection.

Left: A post card originally produced by Raphael Tuck, London. From the collection of Tasveer Ghar.

Aown Ali

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chandni raat bari dair ke baad ayi hai

lab pe ek baat bari dair ke baad ayi hai

aaj ki raat wo aye hain bari dair ke baad

aaj ki raat bari dair ke baad ayi hai

-Saifuddin Saif

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Annual Chaand Raat repost

Saba: Chaand

Bua: Kya manga beta?

Saba: Kuch nhi, bus jo mera hai wo humesha mera hi rahega.

Saba (Bin Roye 2016)

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چاند رات مبارک

Chaand Raat🌘

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“Life” via weheartit

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｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ. April will bring blessings.

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