When did this noise of lamentation exist, when your love did not? Our heart was ahead, you were not a source of mourning.

This profound couplet questions the very nature of grief. Mir Taqi Mir suggests that the dramatic mourning (shor-e-nauha) the beloved displays now is unwarranted. He asks: When did this grief begin, when your love was nowhere to be found? The second line implies that when the connection was real, the heart was so consumed that there was no room for such sorrow. It’s a beautiful critique of misplaced pain.