That sun-faced beloved looked at their own radiant face and transformed the sorrowful dusk of the forlorn into morning.

In this couplet, the beloved's radiant countenance is compared to the blazing sun ('khurshid-roo'). 'Shaam-e-Gharibaan' represents the absolute depths of grief and desolate darkness, an evening when all hope seems lost. Yet, the poet marvels that the sheer luminescence of the beloved simply revealing their face is enough to banish that sorrow, instantly turning despair's darkest night into a bright, hopeful morning.