The nightingale's lament is caused by distinguishing between the tulip and the rose; may no eye ever open in this world to make distinctions.
Ghalib insightfully suggests that all our suffering stems from the human tendency to compare and discriminate. The nightingale weeps only because it makes a distinction between the tulip and the rose, longing desperately for one over the other. The poet wishes that no one would ever open an eye of differentiation, because when we stop measuring, judging, and separating things into 'better' or 'worse', the pain of longing simply dissolves into peace.
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