ذوق و شوق
گرمی آرزو فراق، شورش ہاے و ہو فراقموج کی جستجو فراق، قطرے کی آبرو فراق!
English translation
The wave’s enduring quest, the rain-drop’s search to be a pearl, the heart’s eternal yearning, are all before fulfilme
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 31 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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