Fireworks are like a children's pastime,
The state of a burning heart is also of the same kind.
The inventor of love must have been some doomsday,
What a game he has devised for boys!
This Urdu poem likens the intense passion and pain of love (sūz-e-jigar) to children's fireworks and games, suggesting a paradoxical mix of lightheartedness and profound impact. It playfully contemplates the 'inventor of love' as a 'catastrophe' who devised such a 'game' for the young, reflecting on love's deceptively simple yet universally powerful nature, a common theme in Urdu poetry that often explores the complexities of human emotion through accessible metaphors.
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