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1 Urdu couplets and shers with paarsaa

paarsaa: virtuous

Description of paarsaa: Paarsaa is an Urdu adjective and noun meaning a virtuous, abstemious, holy, chaste, or pure person who practices self-restraint and avoids sin. Unlike more casual terms for goodness, it emphasizes profound piety and moral purity rooted in Persian tradition. Differs from everyday morality by denoting an ascetic ideal of complete devotion. In poetry, it appears in couplets lamenting youth spent in forced virtue, as "seeking to be virtuous while young

1 / 1: paarsaa

kisi ka ahd-e-javaani mein paarsaa hona

qasam khuda ki ye

tauheen hai javaani ki

seeking to be virtuous

while young

by god, it's an

insult to youth

Josh Malihabadi (5)

paarsaa (1)

virtuous

tauheen (m) (1)

insult

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