न कोहकन है न मजनूँ कि थे मिरे हमदर्द मैं अपना दर्द-ए-मोहब्बत कहूँ तो किस से कहूँ
— Bahadur Shah Zafar
Meaning

Neither Kohkan (Farhad) nor Majnun remains to sympathize with me; now to whom should I narrate my pain of love?

Explanation

The poet looks around in deep loneliness and realizes that the great legendary lovers—Farhad, the mountain-carver, and Majnun, the wild wanderer—are long gone, leaving behind no one who truly understands his suffering. In the poetic tradition, love is an ordeal so monumental that ordinary people simply cannot fathom it; only fellow martyrs of passion could ever empathize. Left as the sole surviving bearer of such profound devotion, his question is a poignant sigh of absolute emotional isolation.

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