Ise Ajal Takleef Mat Ko Kya Karegi Aakar — Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq
Meaning
Let death not trouble this one—what can it accomplish by coming? I have already been slain, long before, by someone's pride and airs.
Explanation
The poet tells death not to bother coming, because it would find nothing left to take. He is already slain — not by death, but by someone's proud glance, their beauty, their disdain. The beloved's single haughty gesture has already finished him. So death's arrival would be pointless; the work is done. There is gentle humor here, and deep devotion too. He wears his defeat in love like a badge, suggesting that the beloved's charm is more powerful than death itself. To be undone by love, he hints, is a sweeter fate than any ordinary ending.
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