Un Daras-gahon Mein Vo Aaya Na Nazar Hum Ko — Mir Taqi Mir
उन दरस-गहों में वो आया न नज़र हम को
क्या नक़ल करूँ ख़ूबी उस चेहरा किताबी की
— Mir Taqi Mir
Meaning
In those glances, he did not appear to us; how can I imitate the beauty of a bookish face?
Explanation
Mir Taqi Mir paints a picture of unattainable beauty. The poet is lamenting that the beloved never appeared in his simple, everyday life or humble surroundings. Therefore, he feels incapable of imitating or replicating the charm of such an idealized, 'bookish' face. It speaks to the gap between reality and the idealized love found in poetry or stories—a perfect beauty that exists only in imagination.
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