Gar Teri Khanjar-e-mizhgan Ni Kiya Qatl Mujhi — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
If your dagger-like eyelashes do not slay me outright, then what use is the Angel of Death and for what shall he be sacrificed.
Explanation
The poet is speaking to his beloved, and there is a sweet playfulness here. He says: if your eyelashes, sharp like a dagger, had killed me, then I would have died from love itself. But since you did not grant me that death, now the angel of death must come to take my life in the ordinary way. And the poet feels almost sorry for that angel, because taking a life is such a heavy task. How much trouble, how much sacrifice, the angel of death will have to go through, simply because you refused to do it with one glance. It is a tender complaint, dressed in wit and longing.
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