Friday, August 29, 2025

Jay tu aql-lateef hain - kaalay likh na lekh


                        Fareeda jay tu aql lateef hain, kaalay likh na lekh 
                        Apanday girahbaan mein moonh neevaan kar dekh 
                                                              (Sheikh Farid)

Sheikh Farid says:
If you are truly wise and intelligent, then do not write or speak ill of others.
Instead, lower your head and look within your own garment - look within yourself.

We often delight in pointing out the faults of others and in criticizing them. 
We even take pleasure in it.

But, Sheikh Farid reminds us that if you are truly wise, do not indulge in slander.
Instead, turn your gaze inward. 
Look within yourself and you may discover that the very same flaws, or perhaps even greater ones, might be hidden within yourself as well.

True wisdom is to recognize our own flaws and shortcomings before we speak of the faults of others and criticize them.
                                             " Rajan Sachdeva "

7 comments:

  1. Absolutely true ji..🙏

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  2. Think before you speak. An apt piece of wisdom.

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  3. Two childhood friends met after some years when they were in their 20s.
    1st Friend: Are you married?
    2nd Friend: No.
    1st: How come?
    2nd: I haven’t found a perfect woman.
    Five years later, they met again.
    1st Friend: Have you married yet?
    2nd Friend: No, not yet.
    1st: You didn’t find a single perfect woman in the last 5 years?
    2nd: I found 5 perfect women.
    1st: Then why didn’t you marry one of them?
    2nd: They were looking for a perfect man too!

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    1. Thank you Nagrani ji..... nice way to say that no one is perfect

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    2. We look for faults in others but not in ourselves

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  4. I love Freed ji quote I am trying to implement in my life

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