Sab Ta Bafta Chaunk Padi Teri Ahd Mein — Momin Khan Momin
Meaning
In your era everything that was asleep awoke with a start; only my fortune was the one that stirred the least from its sleep.
Explanation
The poet is gently teasing fate here. He says that in your time, in your era, everything woke up and sprang to life. The whole world seemed alert and awake. Only one thing refused to stir, and that was my own luck. While everything around me came alive, my fortune stayed asleep and barely opened its eyes. There is a soft complaint in these words, a sigh at being unlucky even when the moment was full of life and possibility. The beloved or the age brought brightness to all, but the poet's destiny alone remained dull and unawakened.
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