Sarak Jaye Jo Roo-e-chashm-e-tar Se Gosha Daaman Ka — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
If the corner of the garment's hem slips past the surface of these tear-soaked eyes, no one in their senses has ever seen such a river in flood.
Explanation
Imagine someone crying so hard that tears keep pouring from their eyes. If the edge of your garment slips and dips into that stream of tears, the poet says it would look like no river anyone has ever seen in their senses. In other words, the weeping is so endless that the wet eyes become like a flowing river, and the hem of the clothes brushing against those tears is like a cloth slipping into real water. It is a beautiful, exaggerated picture of overwhelming grief, where the tears are so plentiful they turn into a river of their own kind.
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