The multi-talented Mah Laqa was second to none when it came to love verses. This specific ghazal is proof of her deep understanding of the pain of a lover. She writes that a lover gets so accustomed to the pain of being in love that it actually gives her strength. Such is the level of her acclimatization to pain that she actually gets intoxicated by it and learns to live in peace with it.
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