Hundred Great Muslims

232 Hundred Great Muslims
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(Where is the second footstep of the heart's desire, 0 Lord? This wilderness
of being appeared to be a mere footprint).
He was an outstanding philosopher-poet who combined in himself the
genius of a poet with the art of a skilful artist. He expresses the views of the
celebrated Averroes in his couplet when he says that "one does not complain of
the sorrows of life when the secrets of existence are unfolded to one's eyes and
he thinks life and miseries as two sides of the same picture".
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At times Ghalib has broken the bonds of grammar and let loose his imagination.
But grammar is the objective phase of logic and poetry is free from logic.
According to Abdur Rahman Bijnori, "Shakespeare and Ghalib are too great to
care for the dogmatism of grammar and diction. Rather grammar should be
moulded according to their writings". He has coined a variety of new words,
phrases and idioms and made them vehicles of his lofty ideas. He was an expert
in the art of forming beautiful phrases. He has maintained an individuality of his
own, inventing new similes and metaphors. One great quality of Ghalib which is
hardly found in any other poet is that some of his couplets contain a store of
knowledge.
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The poet had the real taste of life in love only.
In love I found the ecstasy of life,
A remedy to my pain
A remedy which is nothing
But an eternal pain.
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The entire edifice of his poetry stands on the foundation of originalityoriginality
of thought and expression, similes and metaphors, allusions and array
of words. This exceptional adherence to originality had made him somewhat
unpopular in his days, but he never cared for it. Once he said: