Nahin Dekha Hai Lekin Tujhko Pahchana Ho Aatish Ne — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
I have not seen you, yet Atish has recognized you; O beloved, your claim to divinity is rightly justified.
Explanation
Here the poet Atish speaks to his beloved with tender devotion. He says, I have never seen you with my eyes, yet somehow I have truly come to recognize you. And if you, my beautiful beloved, claim to be divine, to be God himself, then that claim is completely fair and justified. The idea is lovely and bold. The beloved's beauty and presence are so overwhelming that they feel like glimpses of the divine. Just as we cannot see God yet feel his nearness, the poet cannot fully see his beloved yet knows her in his heart. So calling the beloved godlike is not exaggeration, it is simply the truth of love.
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