Seeing the false dawn, I realized that you were false; the dawn of your eyes is a calamity.

This couplet is a profound meditation on illusion and reality, delivered with characteristic melancholic depth. Mir Taqi Mir suggests that the dawns (sehar) seen in the world before were merely illusions. However, the 'dawn' reflected in the beloved's eyes is something far more dangerous—it is a calamity! It captures the destructive beauty of love, where even the promise of light brings suffering.