Be-sabab Kyunkar Lab-e-zakhm Par Afghaan Hoga — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
Without a cause, how could the wound's lip cry out in pain—its salt-cellar must be filled with the clamor of Judgment Day.
Explanation
The poet asks a beautiful question. The lips of a wound don't cry out without reason. If the wound seems to wail, there must be a cause behind it. He imagines that the one who inflicts such wounds keeps a salt cellar, and that salt cellar is filled with the roar of Judgment Day. So when salt touches the raw wound, the pain is so overwhelming that it unleashes a cry as loud as the clamour of the final reckoning. In short, the beloved's cruelty is so intense that even a wound's suffering sounds like the uproar of the apocalypse. It is a vivid picture of love's sharp, unbearable pain.
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