Nishana Teer-e-tohmat Ka Rahe Mera Akhtar-e-taale — Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish
Meaning
May the star of my fortune remain the target of accusation's arrow; whenever I bear a scar of blame, the sky imagines I have earned a coin.
Explanation
The poet feels that his star of fortune has become the fixed target for the arrows of blame. No matter what he does, accusations keep falling on him. Then he turns bitter and clever at once: whenever he lifts up the dark scars on his heart, the sky mistakes them for coins it has found. In other words, his wounds are so many that even the heavens treat his suffering as treasure. It is a complaint about a cruel fate that never spares him, wrapped in a proud, aching image of pain mistaken for wealth.
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