Dard Hai Jaan Ke Ewaz Har Rag-o-pai Mein Saari — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
In every vein and sinew only pain dwells in place of life itself; O healer, we are beyond cure, whatever remedy may come.
Explanation
In this couplet, the poet says that pain has taken the place of life itself. Every vein and nerve in his body is filled with aching, as if suffering now flows through him instead of blood. Then he turns to the healer with a gentle, hopeless truth. He says there is no cure that could ever bring him back to health. The pain has become so deep and so complete that no remedy can help. In a way, the poet has made peace with this. His suffering is not just an illness to be treated; it has become part of who he is. There is beauty in this surrender, a quiet acceptance that some wounds are beyond healing, and that pain itself can be a way of living.
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