Mardum-e-dida-e-tar Mardum-e-abi Hain Magar — Mir Taqi Mir
Meaning
The soft touch of the eye's sight and the soft touch of the water are there, yet we live daily through night and day, evening and morning, in the water.
Explanation
This profound couplet speaks to the deceptive nature of existence. Mir Taqi Mir observes that the inhabitants of the eyes (the beautiful gaze) and the inhabitants of the water (the transient beauty) are merely superficial. Yet, they spend their days and nights, their evenings and mornings, immersed in water. It suggests that true immersion, or perhaps inescapable suffering, is found in the very things that appear fleeting or purely aesthetic.
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