इस को रोकूँ मैं इलाही कि सँभालूँ उस को कि तड़पने लगे दिल और जिगर दोनों साथ
— Nazm Tabatabai
Meaning

O God, should I restrain this one or steady that one, for both my heart and soul (liver) have begun writhing in agony together?

Explanation

This couplet captures an overwhelming moment of emotional frenzy where love's ache strikes every corner of one's being at once. In classical poetry, the heart (dil) is the wellspring of tender feeling while the liver (jigar) bears the fortitude of suffering, and here both are convulsing in tandem. The lover stands utterly helpless before the Divine, like someone frantically trying to steady two precious, fragile things falling apart at the very same instant.

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