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When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been.


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Born: December 27, 1797
Died: February 15, 1869 (aged 71)
Bio: Ghalib born Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, on 27 December 1797 died 15 February 1869), was the preeminent Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen-names of Ghalib and Asad. His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula.
Known for:
  1. Diwan-e-Ghalib
  2. Ghazals of Ghalib
  3. Love sonnets of Ghalib
  4. Selected Poetry of Ghalib
  5. The lightning should have fallen on Ghalib

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