आफ़त-ए-रोज़गार जब तुम हो शिकवा-ए-रोज़गार कौन करे
— Dagh Dehlvi
Meaning

When you yourself are the greatest calamity of this world, who is left to complain about the world or fate?

Explanation

Usually, we tend to blame fate or the cruel ways of the world for all our sorrows and heartbreaks. But here, the poet playfully and poignantly points at the beloved—saying that when you yourself are the supreme catastrophe of this age, who is left to complain against destiny? It is an act of sweet surrender, suggesting that every hardship the universe could inflict pales before the overwhelming, delicious torment of loving them.

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