तू मिला तो लगा कि रब मिला,
हर दुआ में तेरा नाम आया।
इश्क़ और इबादत में फ़र्क़ क्या,
जब तुझे चाहा तो ख़ुदा आया।
Tu mila to laga ki Rabb mila,
Har dua mein tera naam aaya.
Ishq aur ibaadat mein farq kya,
Jab tujhe chaaha to Khuda aaya.
Meaning & Context
This Sufi-inflected shayari occupies the rich intersection of sacred and profane love that defines the entire ghazal tradition from Rumi and Hafiz to the poets of the Deccan sultanates. The beloved ('tu') and the Divine ('Rabb', 'Khuda') are collapsed into a single experience, asserting the Sufi doctrine that true earthly love is not a distraction from the Divine but a path toward it. The dissolution of the boundary between 'ishq' (love) and 'ibaadat' (worship) is the shayari's central philosophical gesture, one that has made Sufi poetry both celebrated and controversial across centuries of Islamic thought.
Anonymous / Traditional folk poetry. Original meaning & analysis © Lyrical Shayari.