Whoever becomes enamored with your life-giving lips will become a Messiah, even if they pass away from this world.
In classical Urdu poetry, the beloved's lips are often celebrated as having the miraculous, life-giving touch of the Messiah. The poet weaves a wondrous paradox here: even if the lover passes away in devotion to those lips, his passing is not an ordinary death. Touched by that transcendent grace, he leaves this world only to become a Messiah himself, immortalized through the very love that consumed him.
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