Word Meaning
बे-हवास
be-hawaas
Meaning
Senseless, dazed, distracted, or driven out of one's senses.
Detailed Meaning
Literally meaning deprived of one's senses, 'be-hawaas' describes a state of intense bewilderment, distraction, or mental disarray. In this couplet, it conveys how overpowering longing (shauq) has stripped the lover of clarity, rendering him utterly absent-minded and blind to the world without the beloved. It captures an emotional vertigo born of intense love.
Etymology
Composite of Persian prefix 'be-' (without) and Arabic 'hawaas' (the senses, plural of 'haassa').
Usage
In classical Urdu ghazal, it commonly describes the lover rendered completely frantic, absent-minded, or delirious by love or sorrow.
Examples
Left senseless by the shock of departure
Wandering the alleys in a dazed stupor