M6:770 — سخت‌تر افشرده‌ام در شر قدم / که لفی خسرم ز قهرت دم به دم

This couplet is part of a direct, anguished address to God, a confession of spiritual failure. The speaker admits that instead of being corrected by God's awesome power (qahr), he has plunged deeper into sin. The feeling is one of being trapped in a cycle of despair: the more he feels God's overwhelming majesty and his own distance from it, the more lost and defiant he becomes.

The key phrase, lafī khusr ("in total loss"), is a direct quotation from the Qur'an (Surah al-ʿAsr, 103:2), where it describes the general human condition without faith and good deeds. Here, the speaker claims this state for himself, not as a general principle, but as a personal, ongoing reality—"moment by moment." He is not just a sinner; he feels fundamentally bankrupt.

This confession sets the stage for the verses that follow, where he admits to being deaf to God's counsel and claiming to be an idol-breaker while actually being an idol-maker (M6:771). The beyt captures a profound psychological insight: sometimes, the sheer scale of divine perfection can lead a person not to humility, but to a hardened sense of futility and rebellion.