Bad-tar Hai Zist Marg Se Hijran-e-yar Mein / Bimar Dil Bhala Na Hua — Mir Taqi Mir
Meaning
The Shayar says that living in separation from the beloved is worse than death itself; and if this ailing heart survives, it would be better for it to die.
Explanation
This profound couplet by Mir Taqi Mir explores the agonizing choice between life and death. He suggests that the pain of separation (Hijr) is so unbearable that it feels worse than actual death. The second line, 'The sick heart turned out to be healthy,' implies that the suffering itself—the yearning and the pain of absence—was a strange kind of medicine, a painful cure for the heart's ailment.
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