जहाँ में हाल मिरा इस क़दर ज़बून हुआ कि मुझ को देख के बिस्मिल को भी सुकून हुआ
— Akbar Allahabadi
Meaning

In this world, my condition became so wretched and miserable that even a slaughtered prey found peace upon seeing me.

Explanation

Here, the poet paints a striking, bittersweet picture of unbearable suffering through poetic exaggeration. A 'bismil' is a creature mortally wounded and writhing in its final moments of slaughter. The poet's inner misery is so profound that even this dying creature, upon looking at the poet's desolate condition, feels a sense of quiet relief that its own pain is far lesser.

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