Pasban
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do you know that he has alot more poetry in farsi than urdo? once i thought he was from afghanistan(school time). apart from poetry work, he was a great man and philosopher.
Indeed the bulk of his poetry is in Farsi, a tongue he appreciated much. He composed some 12,000 verses in prose of which 7,000 were entirely in Farsi, with the remainder being what is often termed as being Persinate-- i.e Farsi word conjunctions with Urdu verb connectors (for example using, 'parr' instead of the Farsi 'bar' or using the Urdu 'kaa' instead of the Farsi 'waa') as similarly found in the Pakistani national anthem. When asked in relevance to this, he responded in one of his poems:
گرچہ اردو در عذوبت شکر است
لیک پارسی ام ز هندی شیرینتر است