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Show us a tattoo.
I got this last year, when I was visiting A in Detroit. The picture is not very clear, but I'm too lazy to take a better one.
It is a sufi couplet by Hazrat Shah Niaz, in Arabic script.
Yaar ko hamne jaa ba jaa dekha
Kahin zahir kahin chhupa dekha
I see my beloved everywhere
Sometimes obvious, sometimes hidden
I love the duality of expression in this couplet, the way God is referred to as the beloved, and worship as love.
The ghazal is part of Raqs-e-Bismil , [Dance of the Wounded], a beautiful collection of sufi ghazals, sung by Begum Abida Parveen and composed by Muzaffar Ali. Somebody finally uploaded the whole ghazal on youtube.
It is a sufi couplet by Hazrat Shah Niaz, in Arabic script.
Yaar ko hamne jaa ba jaa dekha
Kahin zahir kahin chhupa dekha
I see my beloved everywhere
Sometimes obvious, sometimes hidden
I love the duality of expression in this couplet, the way God is referred to as the beloved, and worship as love.
The ghazal is part of Raqs-e-Bismil , [Dance of the Wounded], a beautiful collection of sufi ghazals, sung by Begum Abida Parveen and composed by Muzaffar Ali. Somebody finally uploaded the whole ghazal on youtube.
