राह ज़ाहिद को जब कहीं न मिली दर-ए-मय-ख़ाना वा किया तू ने
— Altaf Hussain Hali
Meaning

When the ascetic found no way left anywhere, You opened the door of the tavern for him.

Explanation

Here, the poet gently smiles at the rigid ascetic, the zahid, whose strict rituals and orthodox paths led him to a dead end. When all conventional roads to salvation closed, the Divine opened the doors of the tavern for him. In Sufi tradition, the tavern isn't a place of sin but a sanctuary of selfless love and divine surrender, proving that true grace often finds us where dogmatic piety fails.

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