Shab-e-furqat Bhi Jagmaga UTThi — Jigar Moradabadi
शब-ए-फ़ुर्क़त भी जगमगा उट्ठी
अश्क-ए-ग़म हैं कि माह-पारे हैं
— Jigar Moradabadi
Meaning
Even the night of separation has illuminated; are these tears of sorrow or fragments of the moon?
Explanation
The night of separation is traditionally imagined as desolate and pitch-black, but the poet flips that sorrow into something radiant. The lover's constant tears glisten so intensely in the dark that they resemble broken fragments of the moon itself. It is a breathtaking metaphor where profound grief does not merely consume the lover, but transforms the darkest hour into an ethereal, glowing beauty.
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