O ascetic, how can I describe the pleasure of wine to you; alas, you unfortunate one, you have never even tasted it.

In this playfully teasing couplet, the poet takes a friendly jab at the orthodox ascetic (zahid) who judges pleasures he has never known. With an affectionate sigh of pity ('haye kam-bakht'), the speaker laments that words cannot capture the ecstatic delight of wine for someone who has never tasted a drop. In ghazal tradition, 'wine' symbolizes direct emotional experience and divine love, gently reminding us that you cannot truly understand life's sweetest truths without daring to feel them firsthand.