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Urdu Poem "hum jo tere beghair zinda hain" | Mufti Abu Layth

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video · 6:11 · 4,600 views · 11 May 2021 · Open on YouTube

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to the mood and i do actually have a poem i'd like to read a bit out for you people yeah this is for you people to appreciate the finer arts in life this is called right so this is why someone what is he goes by the name this is weird he goes by the name that and that's not his real name it's a kind of he's kind of twisting the letters of his name around which is actually aftab

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akbar that's it but he kind of swaps the letters around to make something which doesn't really mean anything it doesn't really could mean something in arabic but up tough not really so but this poem anyway he says the fact that without you we are still living

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to my beloved but this is you know this is something it touches heart strings people heart string man heart string there [Laughter] so this he says check this out let me just write so i'll also gotta bring up your comments they're moving way too fast right nubs chelty has asked jardi but the pulse is beating breath remains flowing i mean there's a breath flow

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[Music] it says and that is the summary of how it was spent after life was spent after you simply that the heart remained beating and the breath remained flowing that's it that's all that was left to life says there used to be a rhythm in the heart once upon a time

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now it's just an a never-ending series of ah of pain of sigh and an anguish [Laughter] epic line people epic he says and this that we are alive without you that it is but just a show

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sub dunya is like when you know things you do have to do for the world world's sake you know for the sake of society it's not there isn't really no reality to it people that he says each night consoles me with this message that it's just this night as

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in it's just tonight the final night that you have to bear through and then the rest he says even though we may and sometimes you know i i've said this before urdu poetry can kind of have a bit of melancholy to it but he says that we seem to have lost to life but life hasn't yet lost to death see it's weird because it's a

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he's kind of grouping together a sense of despair but underlined with a sense of hope you know it's strange because yes the evening of sorrow or anguish is long but he says but it's only an evening [Laughter] that's kind of more hopeful i mean hope

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seems to preponder it but here he's kind of got it a bit it's fair hindi which is decisive it says the judgment you did you did it was decisive that is an outstanding quality you have [Laughter]

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[Laughter] honestly i read that and i was like oh my god that really wow it's it's amazing you know in poetry one can find you can find i don't a a solid cyclist but yes

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, May 11). Urdu Poem "hum jo tere beghair zinda hain" | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/g16h085hgaa/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Urdu Poem "hum jo tere beghair zinda hain" | Mufti Abu Layth." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded May 11, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/g16h085hgaa/
BibTeX
@misc{abulayth-G16h085hGAA,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Urdu Poem "hum jo tere beghair zinda hain" | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {5},
  date = {2021-05-11},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/g16h085hgaa/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/g16h085hgaa/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}