# Poetry: a ghazal on love, beauty and patience

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/15/
- Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:03:06–1:06:52)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=3786s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/

**Topics:** Urdu poetry

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** A poetry interlude: he reads and explains a poem about love, beauty and patience.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth reads a poem in Urdu with Persian words and explains its lines in English: the poet says the craze is no longer in his head nor the desire in his heart, yet he cannot trust his resolve to have left love alone. He explains a line saying it is true he has not fallen in love, but also that the beloved's beauty is not all that, and another on the nature of beauty, to which the only cure is patience. He explains a Persian word and a line about not speaking ill of someone with one's own mouth. Much of the recited poetry is missing from the captions.

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:03:06–1:06:52)

[1:03:05] everything can wait for poetry everything can wait this is from he says that i don't have that craze in my head anymore and i don't even have the desire in my heart but having the but this ambition of having left love alone i can't trust it you know

[1:03:56] is but it is true i'm not i have not succumbed to love attitude

[1:04:32] [Laughter] because it's true i haven't fallen to love but it's also true that your beauty isn't all that either [Music] is doing it the nature of

[1:05:12] beauty is such that we know it it's known to us he's saying you know it too the only cure to it the only way you can deal with it is to have patience but alas we one cannot is a persian word which means accept

[1:05:57] you see this is what some of my beloveds as well the attitude we don't say something bad about him from our own mouths a friend of yours but this one not nice person you know this was not nice so he says we don't say but he says

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 1zgHntbMPis/s/15. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/15/

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