तेरे आरिज़ पर हुआ आख़िर ग़ुबार-ए-ख़त नुमूद खुल गई आईना-रू दिल की कुदूरत खुल गई
— Bahadur Shah Zafar
Meaning

Finally, the faint down has appeared upon your cheek; O mirror-faced beloved, the hidden murkiness of your heart has now been revealed.

Explanation

In this couplet, the poet playfully teases the beloved whose luminous, mirror-like face has just begun to show the faint shadow of new down or facial hair. In classical Urdu poetry, a pure cheek was likened to a pristine mirror, and this emerging stubble is imagined as a settling layer of dust. The poet cheekily implies that as soon as this 'dust' surfaced on the mirror, the secret coldness and grudge hidden deep within the beloved's heart were finally exposed.

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