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نہ میرے ذکر میں ہے صوفیوں کا سوز و سرور
نہ میرا فکر ہے پیمانۂ ثواب و عذاب
Na mere zikr mein hai sufiyon ka soz-o-surur
Na mera fikr hai paimana-e-savab-o-azab
خدا کرے کہ اسے اتفاق ہو مجھ سے
فقیہ شہر کہ ہے محرم حدیث و کتاب
Khuda kare ki use ittifaq ho mujh se
Faqih-e-shahr ki hai mahram-e-hadis-o-kitab
اگر نوا میں ہے پوشیدہ موت کا پیغام
حرام میری نگاہوں میں ناے و چنگ و رباب!
Agar nava mein hai poshida maut ka paigham
Haram meri nigahon mein nae-o-chang-o-rabab!
Source: Zarb-e-Kalim (1936), section "Adabiyat-o-Funun-e-Latifa" — nazm
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Three couplets titled "Unlawful Song". The poet says his thought is neither the Sufis' rapture nor a measure of reward and punishment, and hopes the city's learned jurist will agree with him on one point: if a melody carries a message of death, then flute, harp and rebab are unlawful in his eyes.
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