Song lyrics

Be Hijaaab

📜 Lyrics

What was the need for you to come unveiled? What was the need to rob me of my senses like this? What was the need... what was the need... Oh, what was the need? You could have just told us to sink our own boat, What was the need to raise so many storms? What was the need... what was the need... What was the need? Ever since I came here, I sit with my lips sealed, What was the need to invite me to the gathering? What was the need... what was the need... What was the need? Had I trusted my own character and actions, What was the need to humor your whims? What was the need... what was the need... What was the need? Your desolate ruins could have flourished even otherwise, What was the need to drive me mad? What was the need... what was the need... What was the need? If tears of blood had to be shed later, Sarshar, What was the need to shed the blood of lovers? What was the need... what was the need... What was the need?

💡 Meaning & story

Why was there a need for you to come unveiled, what was the need to thus blow away my senses? Explanation: Addressing the beloved, the poet asks why they appeared before him having removed all veils. This sudden and magnificent display of beauty has robbed him of his senses; what was the need to put him through such a great test? You only had to tell us, we would have sunk our own boat, what was the need to raise so many storms? Explanation: The poet says that if you wanted to drown the boat of my life or heart anyway, you should have told me once, I would have sunk it myself. What was the need to raise storms and take such trouble? After all, the lover was ready to sacrifice everything at a single gesture from the beloved. Ever since I came here, I sit with a seal on my lips, what was the need to invite me to the gathering? Explanation: Mentioning his silence and helplessness here, the poet says that ever since I have entered this gathering, a seal of silence is upon my lips (I am unable to speak). When I had to remain completely silent, what was the use of calling me to this gathering? Had we trusted our own character and actions, what was the need to cater to your whims? Explanation: This couplet expresses humility and the helplessness of love. The poet says that had we possessed complete faith in our own character and actions that we could manage on our own, there would have been no need for us to pamper you and seek your pleasure. Your desolate places could have flourished even thus, what was the need to drive me mad? Explanation: The poet says that the desolate town of your love could have been inhabited in some other way, what was the need to make me mad in love for that? In this path of love, the lover's heart and mind are ruined, which the poet has expressed as a gentle complaint. If bloody tears were to be shed later, O Sarshar, what was the need to spill the lovers' blood? Explanation: Using his pen name in the concluding verse, the poet says: O beloved! If ultimately you were to thrive on the blood of lovers and shed tears of blood from your eyes later anyway, what was the need to inflict so much pain and spill the lovers' blood to begin with? Meaning, if the end result was only tears, why even begin?