Dil Qasr-e-shahenshah Ho Wo Shokh Aameen Shahenshah — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
May the heart become the emperor's palace with that mischievous beloved enthroned as sovereign within it, and may both the worlds be merely the forecourt spread before his royal throne.
Explanation
Here the poet imagines his own heart as a grand palace fit for an emperor, and he wishes that his playful, mischievous beloved would be the ruling king of that palace. He crowns the beloved as the true sovereign of his inner world. Then he takes the thought even further. He hopes that this entire expanse of both worlds, this life and the next, would serve merely as the beloved's forecourt, the waiting ground outside the palace gate. It is a beautiful way of saying that the beloved deserves honor beyond all measure, greater than kings, with the whole universe placed humbly at the entrance of their majesty.
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