Sher#Life
Layi hayat aaye qaza le chali chale
Sher bySheikh Ibrahim Zauq · 1790–1854
Hinglish
laayi hayaat aaye, qaza le chali chale apni khushi na aaye na apni khushi chale
— Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq
Urdu in Devanagari
लाई हयात आए क़ज़ा ले चली चले अपनी ख़ुशी न आए न अपनी ख़ुशी चले
English translation
Life brought me, so I came; death takes me away, so I go — I came not by my own wish, nor do I leave by it.
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