ذوق و شوق
گاہ بحیلہ می برد، گاہ بزور می کشدعشق کی ابتدا عجب، عشق کی انتہا عجب
English translation
Love has a strange beginning, and a strange end: It snatches by excuses sometimes, and drags by force at others.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 28 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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