Mue Ye Ishq Mein Jab Tak Wo Mehrbaan Na Hua — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
I kept dying in love until my beloved showed me kindness; that heart is a bane upon the soul which never became a bane upon the soul.
Explanation
The poet speaks of love's painful journey. As long as the beloved did not turn kind, the lover kept dying in love, waiting and suffering endlessly. Then comes a beautiful twist about the heart itself. A heart worth having is one that becomes a torment, a burden of life. If your heart never ached, never became a source of sweet agony, then it is truly useless. That heart which never turned into a trial for your very soul is, in a way, the real curse. True feeling lives in a heart that knows this ache. So the poet celebrates the pain of love as proof that the heart is alive and capable of deep longing.
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