Ek Aalam Mein Ho Har-chand Maseeha Mashhoor — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
Although you are famous as a Messiah throughout the whole world, the mere name of the sick person gives you the same palpitations it once did.
Explanation
The beloved is famous across the whole world as a healer, someone who brings life to the sick. And yet, there's a tender irony here. Even though you are known everywhere for curing the ailing, the very word 'patient' or 'sick one' makes your heart flutter with unease and anxiety, just as it always did. The one praised as the great healer still grows restless at the mere mention of a suffering lover. It gently suggests that fame for mending hearts doesn't erase the poet's own nervous longing, and perhaps hints that the beloved secretly shies away from the one who aches for them.
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