Chaara-joo Aur Bhi Chaaragari Ga Nagari — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
The healer will seek still more remedies, O city of wounds, when the veil of mischief becomes a patch stitched to the torn seam of the collar.
Explanation
This couplet plays with the idea of healing and madness. The poet imagines that the one who tries to cure him, the healer, will only try harder and harder. Why? Because the torn collar, a classic sign of a lover driven mad by passion, keeps getting stitched back by that bright, mischievous veil of longing. In other words, every time the healer mends the heart, love tears it open again. The cure never ends because the restless spirit of desire won't settle. There is gentle humor here, and a quiet pride in a love so deep that no remedy can truly contain it.
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