हर इक से कहा नींद में पर कोई न समझा
शायद कि मिरे हाल का क़िस्सा अरबी है
— Mir Taqi Mir
Meaning
I told this to everyone in my sleep, but no one understood; perhaps the story of my condition is Arabian.
Explanation
This poignant couplet speaks of profound emotional isolation. The poet suggests that even when he speaks his deepest feelings—his 'haal' (condition)—in the vulnerability of sleep, no one truly grasps it. He concludes that perhaps his suffering, his unique pain, is too exotic or foreign, like an Arabic story, for ordinary understanding.
