I was saved from the arrows of calamities by becoming their target, because my surrender stepped in to protect me like a shield.

This couplet plays on a profound paradox: by willingly presenting oneself as a target rather than fleeing, one actually finds immunity from life's hardships. The poet turns 'tasleem'—the act of graceful surrender and radical acceptance—into a protective shield ('sipar'). When we stop frantically resisting fate and simply accept whatever comes our way, the sharpest arrows of misfortune lose their power to wound us.