As Faruqi observes, a candle flares up most brightly before dying; this is true frequently in the real world, and always in the ghazal world. When it's on the verge of guttering out, the candle's flaring, radiant 'heart' has become 'melted' into a pool of liquid wax that surrounds it. So it's when one's flame is almost ready to burn itself out that one's true radiance appears; this idea is reminiscent of the folk-etymology of 'ghazal' as derived from the last wild beautiful cry of a dying gazelle. And if we take the first line in a more literal and careful sense, we have a more piquant subtlety of meaning. What is it that's 'far-off'? It's 'beauty', and the beauty is that of 'brightness', and the brightness is that of a candle-- the candle of poetry (or, literally, 'speech'). In view of the flexibility of the construction, this may be a metaphoric equation (candle=poetry), but it could also refer to a candle that 'belongs to' or 'pertains to' poetry in some other, unspecified sense. In any case, it appears that one can't have the 'candle of poetry' without either previously, or at the same time, having a candle. Thus the aspiring poet must melt down his heart with suffering, pain, longing, and so on-- all the torments the passionate lover knows so well-- until it is as hotly radiant (and self-consuming) as a candle. This closing-verse also seems to bring us full circle, for it evokes the opening-verse , 214,1 . graphics/meltedheart.jpg