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[Yasir Husain]

two gazelles from the lion 

ghalib, master of the philosophical ghazal


asad: lion ; ghalibs early pen name
ghazal: last cry of the gazelle ; a genre of poetry 



the passion of love's madness has given me a many thousand hearts 
[as if]  each drop of blood in the body having turned black with madness

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/113/113_08.html



free will is not an excuse for strangeness
be so to yourself – but not to an other who seems wild 

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/119/119_08.html