Ai Falak Marhoon-e-ehsaan Tu Na Tera Main Hua — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
O sky, I became neither indebted to your favour nor your own; I am thankful to my God that He rendered me destitute, with nothing to my name.
Explanation
The poet speaks to the sky, to fate itself, and says: I owe you nothing, and you owe me nothing either. We are even. There is a quiet pride here. Why does he feel so free? Because God made him empty-handed, without wealth or belongings. And strangely, he is thankful for this. When you own nothing, fate has no hold over you. There is nothing it can take away, nothing it can threaten you with. His poverty has become his freedom. He bows to no one and depends on no one. So he thanks God for keeping him with nothing, because that very emptiness has set him free from the games of fortune.
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