Umeed-e-waada-e-deedaar-e-hashr Par Momin — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
O Momin, you died in vain upon the hope of the promised vision on Judgment Day, for you never longed and pined for the idols (beloveds).
Explanation
Momin speaks to himself with gentle irony. He says he kept living on just one hope: the promise of finally meeting the beloved on the Day of Judgement. That faraway, uncertain promise was enough to keep him breathing. The poet seems to say he never let himself long openly for the worldly beauties around him, because his whole heart was fixed on that distant, sacred meeting. There is both tenderness and sorrow here. A single far-off hope became his reason to survive, while he quietly held back every other desire. It is a picture of a lover who lives entirely on patience and faith, waiting for a moment that may only come at the very end.
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