What is the reason that you get annoyed with Zafar every time? O beloved with the nature of a houri, your temperament was never like this before.
In this couplet, Zafar makes a tender and bewildered complaint to his beloved, asking why she gets annoyed with him at every little thing. He marvels that someone possessing the heavenly grace and sweet demeanor of an angel could harbor such irritation, as this was never her nature in the past. Even while nursing a wounded heart, the lover cannot help but praise her beauty, capturing that classic, bittersweet moment of love where estrangement meets lingering adoration.
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