Junun Tohmat-kash-e-taskin Na Ho Gar Shadmani Ki — Mirza Ghalib
Meaning
If passion is not blamed for finding solace in happiness, then the pleasure of living is merely salt sprinkled upon the wound of the heart.
Explanation
Ghalib offers a striking paradox here: what the world considers the 'pleasure of living' doesn't heal the passionate lover, but acts like salt rubbed into an open wound. True devotion and madness (junoon) are far too noble to be pacified by hollow, superficial happiness. In the end, life's conventional comforts only sting sharper, reminding the heart of its exquisite, unhealed agony.
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