For those whose arch of worship is the curve of the beloved's eyebrow, tell me, how could their prostration ever be performed in the Kaaba?
The poet blends divine worship with earthly love, comparing the gentle arch of the beloved's eyebrow to the sacred prayer niche of a mosque. When a lover's heart has made the beloved's face its ultimate sanctuary and focus of devotion, conventional rituals lose their hold. Bowing down physically in the holy Kaaba feels incomplete or impossible, because their true prayer is eternally fixed on the beloved.
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