تصویر درد
محبت ہی وہ منزل ہے کہ منزل بھی ہے، صحرا بھیجرس بھی، کارواں بھی، راہبر بھی، راہزن بھی ہے
English translation
Love is the only stage which is the stage as well as the wilderness; it is the bell, the caravan, the leader as well as the robber.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 63 of 69 in “تصویر درد” (Picture of Pain) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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