Shikast-e-khatir-e-ahbaab Hoti Ho Bahut Is Se — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
The hearts of friends are badly broken by this; O beloved, your attention has the effect of a healing balm that mends what is shattered.
Explanation
The poet is gently teasing someone he loves. He says that your attention, your care, has a remarkable healing power. Momiyai was an old remedy believed to mend broken bones. So he compares your attention to this healing balm. But there is a sweet irony here. The more you turn your attention toward your friends, the more their hearts seem to break. Your concern, meant to heal, somehow wounds them even more. It is a tender complaint, half serious and half playful, about how the beloved's very kindness can cause deeper heartache. In the end it is a lover's clever way of saying that your closeness overwhelms the heart, breaking it even as it tries to mend it.
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