Sahir faced lot of opposition in his life. He wrote some of fabulous Nazms during this frustated period. One of them, revealing the truth of Life & death goes like this:
Maut se aur kuchh mile, na mile
Zindagi se to jaan chhootegi
Muskurahat naseeb ho ke naho
Aansuon ki ladi to tootegi
Hum na honge to gham kise hoga
Khatm har gham ki daastan hogi
Maut kitni bhi sangdil ho magar
Zindagi se to mehrbaan hogi!