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{837,6}

dil-kash aisā kahāñ hai dushman-e jāñ
muddaʿī hai pah muddaʿā hai ʿishq

1) where [else] is such a heart-attracting mortal enemy?!
2) there is a claimant/enemy, but the claim/object/desire is passion

 

Notes:

muddaʿī : 'A claimant, suitor; plaintiff (in a law-suit), complainant, prosecutor, accuser; —an enemy'. (Platts p.1015)

 

muddaʿā : 'Asserted as a claim, claimed, sued for; alleged; pretended; meant; —what is claimed, or alleged, or pretended, or meant; desire, wish; suit; meaning, object, view; scope, tenor, drift'. (Platts p.1015)

*Platts Dictionary Online*

S. R. Faruqi:

In Persian, muddaʿī doesn't have the meaning of 'enemy'. Taking advantage of the Urdu idiom, Mir has created a light wordplay between muddaʿī and muddaʿā . Another pleasure is that if we write muddaʿī with an alif maqṣūrah and obtain muddaʿâ , then the meaning will be 'having made a claim'. [Further discussion of related phrases.] Thus muddaʿī with the meaning of 'one who makes a claim', or 'having made a claim', or 'something that has been claimed'-- the mind is directed toward all these possibilities.

The first line also has two meanings: (1) Where is there a mortal enemy (the beloved) who is so heart-attracting?; and (2) Where is there such a heart-attracting mortal enemy (the beloved)? In addition, kahāñ has two meanings: 'in which place is it?' and 'it is not'.

FWP:

SETS == KAHAN
MOTIFS
NAMES
TERMS

I have nothing special to add.

 

 
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