Be-sabab Hi Jafa Ka Zulm Ka Ai Zauq — Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq
Meaning
Without any reason, O Zauq, through cruelty and tyranny, my beloved gave me nothing but weeping.
Explanation
In this couplet, Zauq speaks of the pain of love with gentle complaint. He says that for no reason at all, his beloved showered cruelty and injustice upon him. And what did the beloved finally give him? Nothing but tears, nothing but a life spent weeping. There is a quiet sorrow here, yet also a kind of acceptance. The lover does not even ask why this happened. He simply notes that the only gift of this love was endless crying. It captures how love can leave us with heartache we never deserved, and how, even then, the heart keeps holding on to the one who caused the pain.
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