sherKuch Alfaaz
'mir' ke din-o-mazhab ko ab puchhte kya ho un ne to qashqa khincha dair men baitha kab ka tark islam kiya why is it you seek to know, of miir's religion, sect, for he sits in temples, painted brow, well on the road to heresy the couplet mocks the very question of the poet’s religious identity, because his actions already declare it. the “temple” and the “tilak-like mark” stand as symbols of crossing boundaries and adopting the beloved’s world. at heart it is an intense, defiant love that overturns conventional labels of faith. the tone is both ironic and resigned: the shift has happened long before anyone started asking.
