I repeat again, if Iqbal wrote Shikwa in 2026 they’d lynch him and force his family to leave town. The society has lost its sense of poetic wordings, they only go for literal translations. Downfall.
This nonsense reminds me of the tone deaf posts we used to see after every terrorist attack saying "koi Musalman aisa nahi karsakta", meanwhile the Taliban were blowing up Masjids, Imam Bargahs, markets, and schools using the name of Islam
[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you, [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you, [looking at myself] it's over.
If I'm being honest, half the things I went through are in fact because of me, my lack of discipline, not listening to my gut feelings, and my poor decision-making.