Ban Gaya Josh-e-mohabbat Se Hamare Seena Mein — Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq
Meaning
In my breast, through the fervor of love, the gleam of your arrow's tip became a fish swimming in a river of blood.
Explanation
The poet imagines that the arrowhead of the beloved has pierced his chest and settled deep inside. But the passion of love has turned his chest into something far richer. The blood flowing from the wound becomes like a river, and the arrowhead resting within it shines like a fish swimming in that river of blood. So the wound is not shown as pain, but as a beautiful, living scene. The heat of love transforms suffering into something precious and almost glowing. It is a striking way of saying that love's wounds, however deep, become treasures the poet proudly carries inside his heart.
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