مرزا غالب

دید تیری آنکھ کو اس حسن کی منظور ہےبن کے سوز زندگی ہر شے میں جو مستور ہے

English translation

Your eye is longing to witness that veiled Beauty which is veiled in everything as the pathos of life.
(This refers to the Sufi concept of Wahdat al-Wujood according to which everything in the universe is God in different forms.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 15 in “⁨مرزا غالب⁩” (Mirza Ghalib) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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