What’s life
If no struggle and gain?
What’s love
If no pleasure and pain?
Existing like the dead
Lying on the bed
Of soil
Will spoil
The goal of life, o Man.
Who can
Be a Majnu if he
Does not fall in the sea
Of pain?
No suffering, no gain.
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*Majnu means Kayes, a legendary lover of Laila
