zabt karta huun to

Interpretation

Shaayar Qamar Jalalvi seems to capture the painful dilemma and the profound tension between oppression and expression. 

Trapped in a suffocating metaphorical cage, the victim grapples with two impossible choices. If she practices practises restraint, compliance and silence, the confinement becomes unbearable, choking the very breath of existence. 

Yet when she expresses pain (aah karta huun) and voices protest, the oppressor (sayyaad—the captor or tormentor) takes offense, perceiving even a sigh as defiance. \

The cage seems to symbolize societal, emotional, or political constraints, while the captor embodies authority or judgment. 

The lines evoke a sense of helplessness: damned for speaking out, suffocated for holding back, underscoring the cruelty of systems or relationships that punish both endurance and protest.