Nazm, you have repented, but how will you manage without wine? Having given up the carefree ways of a drinker, how will you survive?

In this couplet, the poet playfully questions his own solemn vow of repentance: turning pious sounds good in theory, but how on earth will he survive everyday life now? The 'drinker's way' (mashrab-e-rindana) is not merely about alcohol, but a metaphor for a passionate, unconventional, and authentic life free from rigid pretenses. Renouncing that free-spirited nature feels almost suicidal to the poet, reminding us that life without passion and carefree abandon is barely living at all.