जब दिया राह-रौ को ज़ौक़-ए-तलब सई को ना-रसा किया तू ने
— Altaf Hussain Hali
Meaning

When You gave the traveler the longing to seek, You rendered his striving incapable of reaching the destination.

Explanation

This couplet captures a poignant existential paradox, framed as an intimate complaint to the Divine. On one hand, the traveler is gifted with an insatiable passion to wander and seek; on the other, human striving is rendered inherently unable to bridge the distance to the goal. It reflects that bittersweet human condition where the heart is ignited with a fire that no arrival is ever allowed to quench.

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