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kwiatek · 28th January 2021, 07:02 PM

This is a couplet in Urdu from a Marsiya (a Shi’ite elegiac poem on the martyrs of Karbala) by the famous Urdu poet Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabir

شمشیر بکف دیکھ کے حیدر کے پسر کو
جبریل لرزتے ہیں سمیٹے ہوئے پر کو

“When he saw the son of Hyder armored with sword.
Gabriel shivered pulling together his wings”

Here is a bit about his life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Salaamat_Ali_Dabeer

This would mean that it is no earlier than 19th-century and might suggest it is from Lucknow or the Awadh region

28th January 2021, 07:02 PM	#4
kwiatek Member Join Date: May 2019 Posts: 153	This is a couplet in Urdu from a Marsiya (a Shi’ite elegiac poem on the martyrs of Karbala) by the famous Urdu poet Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabir شمشیر بکف دیکھ کے حیدر کے پسر کو جبریل لرزتے ہیں سمیٹے ہوئے پر کو “When he saw the son of Hyder armored with sword. Gabriel shivered pulling together his wings” Here is a bit about his life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Salaamat_Ali_Dabeer This would mean that it is no earlier than 19th-century and might suggest it is from Lucknow or the Awadh region Last edited by kwiatek; 28th January 2021 at 07:28 PM.