What claim of wild passion do you make of me now? When my passion began, where was it?

This powerful couplet is a declaration of absolute, overwhelming passion. The speaker tells Majanun that he has no right to claim the pain of separation (वहशत) from him. Why? Because the moment this passion (जुनूँ) took hold of him—it was a force that predated any suffering. It was an all-consuming, unstoppable force that defined his existence.