Oh God! Why am I being held accountable on this Day of Reckoning? Many of my sins have not even been counted yet.
This profound couplet speaks to the ultimate sense of injustice. Mir Taqi Mir questions the need for an accounting of his sins on the Day of Judgment. He implies that the scale of his transgressions is so vast, or perhaps so misunderstood, that mere accounting cannot capture the truth of his suffering or his life's complexities. It’s a powerful meditation on accountability and the limits of human judgment.
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