Kaun Se Din Nai Qabrein Nahin Ismein Bantin — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
There is no day on which fresh graves are not made here. This desolate ruin is that very same place of warning and admonition that it always was.
Explanation
The poet looks at the world like a graveyard where fresh graves are dug almost every single day. Death never takes a break here. Then he says this ruined place is still the same house of warning it has always been. Just as it taught lessons to people long ago, it keeps teaching the same lesson now. Nothing has changed. Every new grave is a quiet reminder that life is short and no one stays forever. The couplet asks us to pause and reflect. This world is a lesson in itself, showing us again and again how temporary everything truly is.
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