Mat Puchh Ki Kis Waste Chup Lag Gai Zaalim — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
Do not ask, O cruel one, why silence has fallen upon me. What can I say—my condition is such that I say nothing at all.
Explanation
The poet gently tells his beloved, don't ask me why I've suddenly fallen silent. There's a heaviness in his heart, a feeling so deep that words simply fail him. Sometimes our emotions are too big, too tender, or too painful to put into language. He isn't being cold or distant; it's just that some things cannot be spoken. His silence itself is the answer. When the heart is full, the tongue often goes still. So instead of explaining, he quietly says, what can I even tell you? There is nothing I can say. In that silence lives everything he feels but cannot express.
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