ذوق و شوق

آئی صدائے جبرئیل، تیرا مقام ہے یہیاہل فراق کے لیے عیش دوام ہے یہی

English translation

I heard the angel Gabriel saying to me: This indeed is your station – for those acquainted with the pleasure of separation, this is the everlasting comfort.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 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.

Read it in the poem

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