بلال
جفا جو عشق میں ہوتی ہے وہ جفا ہی نہیںستم نہ ہو تو محبت میں کچھ مزا ہی نہیں
English translation
The oppression befalling in Love is not oppression; if there is no torment, there is no pleasure in Love.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 13 in “بلال” (Bilal) 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 poem۴ / ۱۳