تجھے نظارے کا مثل کلیم سودا تھااویس طاقت دیدار کو ترستا تھا

English translation

Like Kalim you were in search of the Sight. Uwais was tantalized for the power of Sight.
(Uwais Qarani (R.A.) was a contemporary of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) and had accepted Islam. He could not achieve his life-long ambition and longing of being a Companion of him. This was so because he could not leave his home town of Qaran in Najd due to the blindness of his old mother. The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) had knowledge of him and used to say that he felt breeze of God's Beneficence from Yemen. The Holy Prophet's (S.A.W.) love for Uwais is shown by the fact that he made him the inheritor of his shirt. Umar (R.A.) and Ali (R.A.) went to meet him in Qaran after the death of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.). Later Uwais moved to Kufah and attained martyrdom in the battle of Siffin where he was in the camp of Ali (R.A.) He is one of the most eminent sufis, often placed second to Ali (R.A.) He was fully absorbed in the Love of God and the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.), but his longing to see the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.)…Allamah Iqbal has referred to him in many places in his works.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil