O Majzoob, what a cure for my frenzy occurred to me: I went and bound my heart to the beloved's disheveled tresses.
The poet shares a wry, charming paradox about how he tried to heal the restless madness of his heart. To cure his inner turmoil, he ended up tethering his heart to the beloved’s disheveled tresses—a remedy that is just as chaotic as the illness itself! In Urdu poetry, scattered hair symbolizes both breathtaking beauty and sweet anxiety, so in trying to escape his frenzy, he playfully trapped himself in an even deeper web of love.
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