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Jawab-e-Shikwa
THE ANSWER TO THE COMPLAINT
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Is this the Man to whom their bow the Angels once had made?
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Such are your ways and you still would protest your love for me!
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The Tou Aaba Woh Tumhare Hi, Magar Tum Kya Ho?
Hath Par Hath Dhare Muntazir-e-Farda Ho!
These were your great progenitors; You lack their brain and brawn;
You sit and wait in slothful ease for every morrows dawn.
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You roll the eye of mutual wrath, Their eye was ever kind;
You err, for errors look, while they were generously blind.
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Each stack and barn it sets on fire, This lightninglike New Age,
Nor bowling wild nor garden gay escapes its flaming rage;
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The lamp of tawhid needs your touch to make it shame the sun!
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