تم مرے پاس ہوتے ہو گویا
جب کوئی دوسرا نہیں ہوتا
tum mire paas hote ho goyaa
jab koii duusraa nahiiñ hotaa
You are with me, as it were,
when no one else is there.
Momin Khan Momin
مومن خان مومن
1800–1852 · Late Mughal (Delhi)
A physician, astrologer and chess master as well as a poet, Momin wrote ghazals of great delicacy. Tradition says Ghalib offered his whole diwan in exchange for one of Momin's couplets.
How to read Momin
Momin hides a second meaning inside a plain sentence. Read each line twice.