My fondness for the poetry of Muhammad Iqbal is well known, and today in Allahabad nigh on 80 years back he propounded his theory of the Two Nations which laid the eventual basis for the foundation of modern day Pakistan.
Here are a couple of lines in which he praises Persian (the language)
Garche Urdu dar uzūbat shakar ast
Lék Pārsī-am ze Hindi shīrīntar ast
(Even though in sweetness Urdu is sugar
nevertheless my Persian is sweeter than Hindi)
Here Urdu/Hindi are the same language albeit written in two different scripts.
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