Even if someone manages to stay safe and alive until the Day of Judgment, still, my dear sir, they must die one day.
The poet uses gentle irony to remind us of the ultimate, inescapable truth of mortality. Even if a person miraculously manages to survive every peril and live right up to the Day of Judgment, death will still claim them in the end. By addressing the listener formally as 'Hazrat Salaamat' (Your Honor / Good Sir), the couplet softly punctures human vanity, urging us to accept our fragility with humility.
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