16 Urdu ash'ar / shaayari (shers, couplets) containing the word:
tarah: type, like, similar to
1 / 16: tarah
mil gayi manzil
koi hamaari tarah
umr bhar safar mein raha
some reach their destination
as they set out of their home
but some like me
keep traveling all their lives
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2 / 16: tarah
yahaan koi 'majrooh'
hum ajnabi ki tarah
apne hi watan mein rahe
no one here, ‘majrooh’,
understands what i say
i remain a stranger
in my own land
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3 / 16: tarah
chaand nikalta hai kis tarah
zulfon ko rukh pe Daal ke
jhatka diya ki yuun
when i asked her
from where does the moon rise
she covered her face with curls
and tossed them to say…here
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4 / 16: tarah
kholte jaame ka band
barg-e-gul ki tarah
har naakhun mo'attar ho gaya
what body it must be
when i untie the drawstrings
like the petals of a flower
my nails smell of perfume too
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5 / 16: tarah
ab apne aap ko
kaaghaz bikhar rahe hain
puraani kitaab ke
pull yourself together
somehow
the pages of the old book
are getting scattered
2008: Kalapi Award
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6 / 16: tarah
sajan siin bayaan karo
aisii tarah karo ki
use meherbaan karo
o friends, relate my plight
to my beloved
but narrate it so
she is moved to mercy for me
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7 / 16: tarah
pardesi ka khat hai 'ibrat'
ye kisi tarah paDha jaye
na samjha jaye
life is like a little-read letter
of a foreigner, 'ibrat'
however you read it,
you can't make sense of it
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8 / 16: tarah
jism se kis tarah mohabbat?
taair ko qafas se bhi
kahin ho hai mohabbat?
can the spirit truly
fall in love with the body?
can a bird ever feel
love for its own prison?
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9 / 16: tarah
guzaari hai zindagi jaise
tamaam umr kisi
doosre ke ghar mein raha
in this way
life has passed
all the years
i lived in someone else’s home
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10 / 16: tarah
kisi tarah na hue
warna duniya mein
kya naheen hota
you were not mine
in any form
else, what couldn't
have happened in this world
Theme: Love, Passion and Longing (108)
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11 / 16: tarah
koh-e-garan
rooyi ki tarah uD jaayenge
hum dekhenge
when the mighty mountains
of tyranny and oppression
fly away like clumps of cotton
we shall see
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12 / 16: tarah
god mein le le
din bhar ki mashaqqat se
badan TuuT raha hai
o night, take me into your lap
like my mother
the toil and troubles of the day
have broken my body
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13 / 16: tarah
kabhi khwabon mein milen
jis tarah sukhe hue phool
kitabon mein milen
as we part ways now, perhaps
we may meet again in our dreams
just as we find dried flowers
within the pages of an old book
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14 / 16: tarah
khushbu ki tarah jaana
mumkin hi nahi lagta
ai dost, tujhe paanaa
arriving like a dream, and
leaving with fragrance behind
it seems impossible, my friend,
to find someone like you
Theme: Friends, Family & Community (121)
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15 / 16: tarah
guzarti hai hasratein
hai wasl se zyaada
mazaa intezaar ka
so many kinds of unmet desires
keep coursing through the heart
but there is more fun in the waiting
than there is in the getting
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16 / 16: tarah
log rahte hain
apne hi ghar mein
ajnabi ki tarah
the tragedy is that
people stay
in their own homes
as strangers
Theme: Friends, Family & Community (121)
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