Friends, everyone seems completely exhausted and struck down today; could it be that the beloved has drawn the sharp sword of their eyebrow?
The poet looks around at his friends and playfully asks why everyone seems so faint, listless, and utterly overwhelmed today. In classical Urdu ghazal tradition, the beloved's gracefully curved eyebrow ('abroo') is famously likened to a drawn, razor-sharp scimitar ('samsaam'). With delightful wit, the speaker suspects that the beloved must have unleashed that lethal glance upon the crowd, leaving the entire world happily struck down by beauty.
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