This art of love, whatever comes to it in three parts, is for someone. You are a novice saint, spiritually immature; what can come to you?

This powerful couplet challenges the superficiality of devotion. The poet suggests that true love (ishq) or spiritual realization isn't something that can simply be acquired or performed. He addresses someone who adopts the guise of a saint or ascetic (zahid), but whose heart lacks genuine depth or experience. Mir Taqi Mir reminds us that mere pretense, no matter how devout, cannot lead to profound truth or true connection.