Laakh Detaa Falak Aazaar Gavaaraa The Magar — Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq
Meaning
Had the heavens given me a hundred torments, I would have endured them; but I wish they had never given me this one pain—the grief of being parted from you.
Explanation
The poet is telling the sky, or fate, that he could have borne any amount of suffering. Give me a thousand troubles, he says, and I would have accepted them all without complaint. There was only one grief I could not endure, and that is the pain of being separated from my beloved. Of all the sorrows you could have sent me, this single one was too heavy to carry. It is a tender confession that the deepest wound in life is not hardship itself, but the ache of parting from the one we love.
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