He gave me both worlds thinking that I would be pleased, while I was overcome with shame and could not bring myself to dispute it.
Mir captures an exquisite yet bittersweet irony here: the Divine assumes that bestowing both the mortal world and the hereafter would leave the lover ecstatic, unaware that the lover only ever craved the Beloved Himself. Rather than protesting this grand misunderstanding, the lover stays gracefully silent. Out of sheer reverence and modesty, he feels it beneath true love to haggle or dispute over a gift so generously given.
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