ذوق و شوق
عالم سوز و ساز میں وصل سے بڑھ کے ہے فراقوصل میں مرگ آرزو، ہجر میں لذت طلب
English translation
In the world of passion, Absence is greater than Presence, Absence is the pleasure of yearning, Presence is desire’s death.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 29 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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