शब रात जहाँ ख़्वाब में तू दिखलाया है ख़्वाब का मज़े लिया और हवा
— Shah Turab Ali Qalandar
Meaning

Last night when you appeared to me in a dream, I savored the pleasure of the dream, and then it vanished like the wind.

Explanation

This couplet captures the bittersweet, fleeting magic of meeting a lover in a dream. The poet recalls savoring the sublime sweetness of the beloved's presence, only for that momentary paradise to vanish like a gust of wind upon waking. It touches upon a universal heartache—how love's most intense joys can be devastatingly brief, leaving behind only the emptiness of waking reality.

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