Na tan mein khoon faraham na ashq aankhon mein


نہ تن میں خون فراہم نہ اشک آنکھوں میں
نماز شوق تو واجب ہے بے وضو ہی سہی
– فیض

Na tan mein khoon faraham na ashq aankhon mein
namaz-e-shauk to waajib hai, be-wazoo hi sahi
– Faiz

न तन में ख़ून फ़राहम न अश्क आँख़ों में
नमाज़-ए-शौक तो वाजिब है, बे-वज़ू ही सही
– फ़ैज़

Meaning of:

Faraham, फ़राहम, فراہم: मौज़ूद, Present
Ashq, अश्क, اشک: आँसूं, Tears

Tom Lea – 2000 Yard Stare” by US Army, Tom Lea – http://armylive.dodlive.mil/index.php/2010/10/art-of-the-american-soldier/. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare

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Thousand-Yard Stare. A painting by war artist Thomas Lea. The thousand-yard stare or two-thousand-yard stare is a phrase coined to describe the limp, blank, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier. The phrase was popularized after Life magazine published the painting Marines Call It That 2,000 Yard Stare by World War II artist and correspondent Tom Lea,[1] although the painting was not referred to with that title in the 1945 magazine article. The painting, a 1944 portrait of a Marine at the Battle of Peleliu, is now held by the United States Army Center of Military History in Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.[2] About the real-life Marine who was his subject, Lea said:

He left the States 31 months ago. He was wounded in his first campaign. He has had tropical diseases. He half-sleeps at night and gouges Japs out of holes all day. Two-thirds of his company has been killed or wounded. He will return to attack this morning. How much can a human being endure

When recounting his arrival in Vietnam in 1965, then-Corporal Joe Houle said he saw no emotion in the eyes of his new squad: “The look in their eyes was like the life was sucked out of them.” Later learning that the term for their condition was the 1,000-yard stare, Houle said, “After I lost my first friend, I felt it was best to be detached.

Source: Wikipedia

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