کیا کہوں اپنے چمن سے میں جدا کیونکر ہوا

میرے مٹنے کا تماشا دیکھنے کی چیز تھیکیا بتائوں ان کا میرا سامنا کیونکر ہوا

English translation

My destruction was something worth witnessing: What can I say how l facing Him was? *
* This also is a very delicate and abstract concept of tasawwuf. According to Wahdat al-Wujood the highest reward for Man is to be able to feel the Presence of God, when he passes from his own self into the Self of God. This is technically known as Fana fi Allah (the mystic experience of losing one's self in God) followed by Baqa Billah (the mystic experience of subsisting or living in or by God). These concepts are not easy to grasp and need guidance from a competent guide.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 10 of 10 in “⁨کیا کہوں اپنے چمن سے میں جدا کیونکر ہوا⁩” (Kya kahoon apne chaman se main juda kyun kar hua) in the section The Ghazals 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

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