کیا کہوں اپنے چمن سے میں جدا کیونکر ہوا
دیکھنے والے یہاں بھی دیکھ لیتے ہیں تجھےپھر یہ وعدہ حشر کا صبر آزما کیونکر ہوا
English translation
Those desirous of seeing You, see You here also; then how the Last Day's promise a test of patience was?*
* This and the next verse mean that the deserving persons see God in this world also and this reward for their merits is not restricted to the Hereafter. The ‘sight’ cannot be measured by the muqannin's (law maker) scales or described in the faqâh's words. It is a feeling and the happiness which only those can feel who deserve and experience it.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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