Wo Aaye Bahr-e-ayaadat To Tha Main Shaadi-e-marg — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
When they came to visit my sickbed, I was dying of joy, for none could cure the injustice the heavens had decreed.
Explanation
When my beloved finally came to visit me, I was so close to death that joy itself felt fatal. The irony is heartbreaking: the very moment I longed for arrives too late. The poet then says something larger. No one could ever find a cure for the cruelty of the heavens, for the injustice of fate. Human effort has limits. Against destiny's tyranny, even the arrival of love cannot save us. There is sorrow here, but also a quiet acceptance that some wounds the sky itself inflicts are simply beyond any remedy.
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