O Dagh, you greet the idol temple from afar; truly, you are a Muslim of your own unique kind.
Daagh teases himself here with effortless wit and self-irony. Caught between religious piety and the irresistible pull of beauty, he greets the temple of idols from a safe distance using a traditional Muslim 'salaam'. It’s a delightfully human paradox—he can neither fully surrender to idolatrous love nor completely turn away from it, making him a charmingly unique kind of believer who invents his own rules of devotion.
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