کیا کہوں اپنے چمن سے میں جدا کیونکر ہوا
کچھ دکھانے دیکھنے کا تھا تقاضا طور پرکیا خبر ہے تجھ کو اے دل فیصلا کیونکر ہوا
English translation
Some demand of showing and seeing was on the Toor: What do you know O heart! How it was decided?*
* This refers to the request of Mosa A.S. on Mount Toor to see God and the latter's refusal to grant that request. This verse means that God is beyond Man's comprehension and, perhaps for that reason, it says that the request of Mosa A.S. was denied. If his request had been granted it would have been necessary for Musa A.S. to describe what he exactly saw, which was impossible.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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