By Qateel Shifai
hua aa apni
ham ko
ham ko
“Well, it is good my madness served me — otherwise where would I have gone to reason with the whole world.”
Romanहिन्दीQateel Shifai
हुआ आ अपनी
हम ज़माने को समझाने जाते
हम ज़माने को समझाने जाते
The verse in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
♪ Hear the coupletA recitation in a synthesized voice.
The Interpretation
With a shrug of relief — "well, it is good" — the speaker thanks his own madness for sparing him an impossible errand: reasoning with the entire world. The wit lies in the inversion, where madness becomes a mercy and sanity would have been the exhausting, doomed task.
For You, Today
You are not obliged to argue your case to everyone — sometimes letting the world think what it likes is the saner freedom.
A wry, much-quoted verse that reframes being misunderstood as a kind of escape rather than a wound.
Themes:The SelfWisdom
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