If a lover's intoxication/sigh is lost to sorrow, what grief, / For chambers of sighs and lamentations are many more.
This couplet, by Allama Iqbal, is a profound lesson in emotional resilience. It tells us that the loss of a single, perfect, blissful moment (Nasheman) should not cause sorrow. Why? Because life offers countless other states of deep feeling—the station of sighs (Aah) and the depth of yearning (Fughaan). The Shayar reminds us that the richness of our emotional landscape is far greater than any single high point.
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