हिज्र की शब मुझ को उल्टी साँस लेते देख कर एक ही दम में वहाँ जा कर सबा उल्टी फिरी
— Nazm Tabatabai
Meaning

Seeing me take my dying breaths on the night of separation, the morning breeze rushed to the beloved and returned immediately in a single instant.

Explanation

In this touching couplet, the poet captures the desperate final moments of a lover enduring the agony of separation. Witnessing the lover gasping his dying breath ('ulti saans'), the morning breeze (saba), acting as a devoted messenger, rushes to the beloved and returns in that very same breath. The poet plays brilliantly on the double meaning of 'dam' (both a breath and an instant) and 'ulti' (reversed breath and turning back), showing how nature itself panics and races against time to bring the beloved's trace before life slips away.

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