Chashm-e-ghazab Se Neem-nigah Mere Waaste — Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq
Meaning
A half-glance thrown my way from those angry eyes is, as it were, a flower-bud that has been dipped and steeped in poison.
Explanation
Here the poet looks at his beloved's angry glance and finds it strangely beautiful. When she looks at him with eyes full of rage, giving only a half-glance, that angry half-look feels to him like a flower bud. But it is a bud dipped in poison, as if quenched or soaked in it. So the beauty is real, yet it wounds. The angry glance attracts him like a blossom, but it also carries the sting of her displeasure. In the lover's heart, even her fury becomes a thing of charm, though it brings pain along with its sweetness.
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