Even the scratch of the lover's chest can wound the heart; this separation of the heart-owners is a strange thing.

Mir Taqi Mir describes a pain that transcends the physical. He says that even the mere scratches on a lover's chest can wound the heart. This is because the agony of separation (firaq) is so profound, so unique to the deep-hearted, that the body's pain becomes an extension of the emotional wound. The poet suggests that the true suffering isn't just the distance, but the very existence of the lover's memory etched upon them.