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AvatarTaking the guise of the poor, the dervishes, we, O Ghalib,
Watch the spectacle of the blessed; of power and pelf
—Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

بنا کر فقیروں کا ہم بھیس غالِب
تماشأے اہلِ کرم دیکھتے ہیں

banaa kar faqeeroN ka hum bhais Ghalib
thamaasha-e-ehl-e-karam dhaikthay haiN

Subversive Ideologies: A Parallel between Mukhtari Mai and Hallaj

This:

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-3-2005_pg3_3

might be stretching it, but it is educational; especially in what it does to provide background on the link between those of the Sufi way (Tasawwuf, Sufism) and its role and power to, as the old slogan went, subvert the dominant paradigm.

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