بلال

تری نظر کو رہی دید میں بھی حسرت دیدخنک دلے کہ تپید و دمے نیا سائید

English translation

Your longing for Sight continued even after witnessing the Sight. The cold heart warmed up but its breath did not rest even for a moment.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 8 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 poem

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