Why are the beloved's tresses so angry and entangled with my heart? What has this ill-fated heart done that goes so much against the tresses?
There is a delightful double meaning at play here with the word 'barham', which means both physically disheveled or tangled and emotionally enraged. The poet playfully laments: what unforgivable crime could his ill-fated heart have committed against the beloved's curls to make them so wildly agitated and unruly? In classical ghazals, the heart is perpetually snared in the beloved's locks, but here the poet charmingly pretends that it is the tresses themselves that are offended and throwing a dramatic fit.
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