Even if the moonlit nights show all their splendor and beauty, O moon-faced beloved, without you I find no pleasure in them at all.
The poet captures a tender truth about longing: the world may offer its most breathtaking wonders, yet they feel hollow and cold without the one we love. By addressing the beloved as 'mah-laqa' (moon-faced), there is a delicate irony—what comfort can the sky's moon bring when the only face that illuminates his heart is absent? It reminds us that external beauty only gains meaning and joy when it is shared with our beloved.
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