ذوق و شوق
عین وصال میں مجھے حوصلہء نظر نہ تھاگرچہ بہانہ جو رہی میری نگاہ بے ادب
English translation
In fulfilment in the past, perception I had none; though my audacious eye was looking for pretences.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 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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