An allegorical love poem tinged with facts

THE 'MESSIAH OF HEALING'

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*SAQI: An Arabic/Persian/Urdu word used for a person who gives water or drinks to the thirsty. However, after it was romanticized by several poets, especially Omar Khayyam, Ghalib, Meer Taqi Meer along with the tavern, it is refers to an extraordinary charming and beautiful veiled woman, who serves drinks and wine to the lovelorn, the heartbroken ones, who frequent taverns in Iran, Pakistan and India.

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