Kaaba Madd-e-nazar-e-qibla-numaa Hai Taa-haal — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
The Kaaba still remains the focus of the gaze that points the way of prayer; would that the yearning eye still turned toward the beloved's lane, as it once did.
Explanation
The poet looks at the compass, the qibla-numa, that always points toward the Kaaba. Even now, he says, that needle keeps turning toward the sacred direction. But his own heart longs for something else. He wishes his gaze, his inner compass, would lean instead toward the street of his beloved, just as it always used to. There is a gentle tension here between sacred duty and personal love. The compass has one fixed direction, but his longing has another. He is confessing that, for him, the lane of the beloved was once the true center, the place his whole attention naturally turned toward, and he quietly wishes it still would.
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