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bastii : 'Inhabited place, settlement, colony; village, small town; abode, home; population, inhabitants'. (Platts p.155)
uuja;R : 'Laid waste, depopulated, demolished, ruined, in ruin, waste, desolate'. (Platts p.103)
iqliim : 'Clime, climate; region, country; zone, belt of country'. (Platts p.63)
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TERMS == METAPHOR; MOODThe echo between bastii and bastaa is also a delight-- they look parallel, but though they both come from basnaa , one is a noun and the other an adjectival present participle ( bastaa hu))aa , 'in the act of becoming settled').
SRF's vision of the returned traveler is perhaps slightly undercut by 'here', which suggests that the speaker and hearers are in the clime itself. For after all, if Mir had wanted to create the 'returned traveler' effect, nothing could have been easier than for him to say vaa;N instead. But of course 'here' could be taken simply as a vivid descriptive device that creates extra immediacy ('here' meaning 'in the place I'm evoking now').
It's true that the speaker sounds like a traveler, a reporter. But might he not also be a veteran lover, giving an introductory tour-- and perhaps a somber warning-- to a newcomer?