O God, do not grant Zafar the love of this base world, because it casts a human being far away from faith and religion.

In this soul-searching couplet, Bahadur Shah Zafar offers a heartfelt prayer to be saved from the hollow allure of material life. He calls this world 'duniya-e-dooñ'—a lowly, deceptive sphere—because being seduced by its fleeting riches blinds a person and hurls them far away from genuine faith and moral truth. Having witnessed the rise and tragic fall of his own worldly kingdom, Zafar gently reminds us that worldly obsessions only distance the soul from divine peace.