Firaq-e-yaar Mein Mar-mar Ke Aakhir Zindagani Ki — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
Dying again and again in separation from the beloved, I finally lived out my whole life; the grief of the parting of soul and body remained forever.
Explanation
In this couplet, the poet speaks of a life spent in the pain of separation from the beloved. Every moment away felt like dying a little, yet somehow the days passed and life carried on. The deeper sorrow, he says, was like the parting of the soul from the body. Just as the soul and body long to stay together but are destined to separate, the lover and beloved too were kept apart. It is a tender way of saying that living without the one you love is itself a slow, constant ache, as painful as the spirit leaving its earthly form.
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