ذوق و شوق
تیری نگاہ ناز سے دونوں مراد پا گئےعقل غیاب و جستجو، عشق حضور و اضطراب
English translation
To my reason Thou didst give the quest born of Absence, and to my love for Thee, Thy Presence and anxiety.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 24 of 31 in “ذوق و شوق” (Ecstasy) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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