Bad-ahdiyon Mein Waqt-e-wafat An Bhi Pahuncha — Mir Taqi Mir
Meaning
In the time of death, I reached the breach of promises, and the promise of loyalty from a beloved remains unfulfilled till now.
Explanation
This couplet is a profound meditation on betrayal and the timing of life's deepest pains. Mir Taqi Mir suggests that the moment of death arrived amidst a sea of broken promises. The real sorrow, however, is that even at the threshold of mortality, the poet felt that a single promise of loyalty from a friend remained unfulfilled. It speaks to a life marked by disappointment, where the greatest grief is not the ending, but the enduring wound of betrayal.
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