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Mubtila means someone who has been overtaken or is fallen, being tested.

Here is a couplet from Momin’s famous ghazal ‘woh jo hum mein tum mein qaraar tha’

jise aap kehte the baa-vafaa jise aap ginte the aashna
main wahi hoon Momin-e-mubtalaa, tumhein yaad ho ke naa yaad ho

The one you called loyal, the one you counted as your friend
I am that same fallen Momin, maybe you remember or maybe you don’t