तरह्हुम-आफ़रीं

Meaning

Inspiring compassion or pity; producing or evoking a feeling of mercy.

Detailed Meaning

This compound adjective describes something that stirs deep compassion, sorrow, or pity. In the couplet, it qualifies the display of tyranny, suggesting that the hunter's cruel contrivance is so stark and pitiful that it paradoxically inspires mercy rather than dread. It emphasizes the tragic irony of oppression evoking pity for the very cruelty it displays.

Etymology

Arabic 'tarahhum' (seeking or feeling pity) + Persian 'aafareen' (creating/producing, from 'aafariidan').

Usage

Employed in classical Urdu poetry to dramatize situations where excessive cruelty or suffering paradoxically elicits deep sympathy.

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