Hamara Kaba-e-maqsood Tera Taaq-e-abroo Hai — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
The Kaaba of my purpose and desire is the arched niche of your eyebrow; and I found your dark eye to be the gazelle of the holy sanctuary.
Explanation
The poet turns the whole language of worship toward the beloved. He says that his true Kaaba, the holy place his heart longs for, is not far away in some distant land. It is the curve of the beloved's eyebrow, arching like a sacred niche. And those dark, beautiful eyes feel to him like the gentle deer that roam within the sanctuary. In short, he finds everything holy and worthy of devotion right there in the beloved's face. Love here becomes a kind of pilgrimage, where the beloved is the destination of all his prayers and longing.
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