About the Poet
Khwaja Mir Dard (1720-1785) (Urdu: خواجہ میر درد) was a poet of the Delhi School. He was a Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddadi religious order.
Poetry
Dard's couplet on this illusory life, from 'Ilm-ul-Kitab':
دوستو، دیکها تماشا یہاں کا بس
تُم رہو خوش ہم تو اپنے گھر چلے ۔
My friends, we have seen enough of this play.
We are going home, you can stay.
—Dard