Marg Ne Hijraan Mein Chhupaya Hai Munh — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
Death has hidden its face within the veil of separation; behold, at last I have unveiled that cloistered one's face.
Explanation
This couplet plays with a beautiful paradox. The poet says that death has hidden its face behind separation. In other words, death stayed veiled, keeping its true form concealed, just as the beloved stays behind a curtain. But now, at last, death has shown the face of that veiled one. The meaning is tender and bittersweet. Only in death, or through the pain of parting, does the hidden beloved finally reveal herself. So death becomes the moment that lifts the veil, turning an endless longing into a final, aching glimpse. There is both sorrow and strange relief here, as the thing most feared becomes the very thing that unveils what the heart had always longed to see.
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