Those who do not hold love for the resolver of difficulties will only realize their true condition when their eyes close in death.
Here, the poet turns a familiar image on its head: closing one's eyes in death is depicted not as darkness, but as the moment true spiritual reality is finally unveiled. 'Mushkil-Kusha' (the Resolver of Sorrows, traditionally an honorific for Hazrat Ali) represents the ultimate refuge and anchor of devotion. The couplet gently cautions that those who neglect this sacred love in life will face an abrupt awakening only when the veil of the physical world drops away.
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