Mad lovers enjoy the immense pleasures of imagination so deeply that they feel they have seen fairies clearly with their own eyes many times.
This couplet celebrates the magical power of a passionate lover's imagination. To the ordinary, rational world, fairies are merely mythical creatures, but those consumed by the madness of love (ahl-e-junoon) dwell so deeply in fantasy that unseen beauty becomes an everyday reality before their eyes. It gently suggests that when you love with total devotion, the inner world of pure contemplation is far more vivid and wondrous than mundane reality.
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