طریقِ اہلِ دُنیا ہے گِلہ شکوَہ زمانے کا
نہیں ہے زخم کھا کر آہ کرنا شانِ درویشی
Tariq-e-ahl-e-duniya hai gila shikwa zamane ka
Nahin hai zakhm kha kar aah karna shan-e-darweshi
یہ نکتہ پِیرِ دانا نے مجھے خلوَت میں سمجھایا
کہ ہے ضبطِ فغاں شیری، فغاں رُوباہی و میشی!
Ye nukta pir-e-dana ne mujhe khalwat mein samjhaya
Ki hai zabt-e-fughan sheri, fughan rubahi o meshi!
Source: Zarb-e-Kalim (1936) — section Adabiyat-o-Funun-e-Latifa, nazm
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A two-couplet nazm on restraint. Complaining about the times is the way of worldly people, and a dervish does not sigh when wounded. A wise elder's lesson ends the poem: holding back one's cry is the way of a lion, while crying out is the way of a fox or a sheep.
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