# An Urdu poem by Ahmad Faraz: the enemy of my life was once dearer than life

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/34/
- Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:58:38–2:01:41)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=7118s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/

**Topics:** Urdu poetry

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth reads and translates an Urdu ghazal by Ahmad Faraz on a lost love who was once dearer than life.

## Longer summary

Reminded that he has not done any poetry, Mufti Abu Layth reads an Urdu ghazal by Ahmad Faraz, whom he calls a legend, translating as he goes. The poem says that the enemy and destroyer of my life was once dearer to me than life, and asks how one can tell anyone today that someone was once ours. It continues that every friend is like a passing cloud, that people in the future will ask whether we too once suffered, and that though we are now found downcast in every gathering, people say Faraz was once the life of the party.

## Sources and names cited

- Ahmad Faraz

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:58:38–2:01:41)

[1:58:01] all right so salsa so what's going down people fear Ameen Azam has used 20 stars you doing it you doing it Rami ha ha that question by the way I mean that name in in some Pakistani dialects I'm not so sure if you know what it means yes a Rami that is better I go ha Rami

[1:58:38] IOE oh that reminds me I haven't said the poet done any poetry yeah let me do some poetry people the legend for us Ahmed for us I came across this poem and I thought this is an interesting one I'll read this out whoa dushman a Jon Jon sip be Arabic Abita AB East is sick Hank we hum Arabic oh hi that that enemy of my life that

[1:59:16] destroyer of my life was once more beloved to me than my life Allah how can we tell somebody today that somebody once upon a time was ours as well Allah Allah whoa douche money John John say Arabic Abita AB Kazakh Hank we hemara be

[1:59:46] her dose Jihan her dose jaha a break raise on Katara that way every friend is like these clouds that just passed these kind of you know there's no stability yes Shaka be sure America Jasha Huckabee share hammurabi Kavita right let me up a glazier Monica million loop the poaching in the future if those people were to meet us they would ask us

[2:00:26] Johar hemara hey boom horribly Kavita you know is saying that in the future people will ask us in other way we are today as in if they're going through some difficulty or something did you ever suffer as well her buzz mhmm me who say absurd ahi Becca Allah Allah dookey Atma sir da means depressed okay this absurdity means like this kind of heavy heartedness and depress

[2:01:03] depression her bosom mayhem now say of sword ahi Becca kaa for us and German Arabic Abita he says that even though we find him in every gathering to be depressed but people say that for us once upon a time used to be the life of a party Allah Allah Allah people poetry poetry's what does it oh that reminds somebody had said to me look he you don't do any justice he never recite

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment a6H5lYE4MN8/s/34. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/34/

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