What is the use of an ineffective sigh or a fruitless tree? O Lord, when there is no pain at all, what worth do the heart and soul have?

The poet compares an unfeeling heart to a barren tree and an ineffective sigh—things that exist but yield no beauty or purpose. In Urdu poetry, 'dard' (sacred pain or deep empathy) is not mere suffering, but the very spark that makes us truly human and conscious. Without this profound capacity to care and ache for others, our heart and soul are reduced to empty forms.