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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 16 Feb 2021 › Segment 4 of 57

An Urdu poem: if anyone asks who I am, say nobody special

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Mufti Abu Layth reads and briefly explains an Urdu poem about being nobody special and about a companion whose absence empties life.

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After joking that his lateness is just destiny, Mufti Abu Layth reads a poem he has read once before, praising its natural, seamless flow. Only his English glosses are captured: if somebody asks who I am, say it is nobody that important; a relationship that is not truly known; and a companion in life whose absence leaves one with nothing to do. The poem's own lines are not in the transcript.

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that it's not me it's just destiny people that it's not like i i'm late lateness just happens it just happens to happen and i just happen to be in it whilst it's happening [Laughter] so where are we at people where we at i've got a poem i've read before once but it is a um it's an interesting one because it has a very natural seamless flow to it and it's about the person expressing that

if somebody was to ask you who am i just say nobody that important so that's the just let them know that it's nobody special

so just look at that line look

it is a relationship that is unknown that is not truly known which in reality is

that's such a companion in life that if he or she is far then one has nothing to do fire people fire so right now let's take a look at what is going on

see people yep so valentine has passed you know i think i should say a few words about valentine's now that it's passed for all the wounded souls that are there like we're in the words of mir where he says

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-02-16-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/4/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, February 16). An Urdu poem: if anyone asks who I am, say nobody special [Video, segment 2021-02-16-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/4/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "An Urdu poem: if anyone asks who I am, say nobody special." Video, segment 2021-02-16-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded February 16, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/4/

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@misc{abulayth-2021-02-16-S04,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{An Urdu poem: if anyone asks who I am, say nobody special}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {2},
  date = {2021-02-16},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/4/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/4/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-02-16-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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