ظاہر کی آنکھ سے نہ تماشا کرے کوئی
عذر آفرین جرم محبت ہے حسن دوستمحشر میں عذر تازہ نہ پیدا کرے کوئی
English translation
The Beloved's Beauty is the creator of excuse for Love's crime; one need not create a new excuse on the Day of Judgment.
* The Jamal (Beauty) of God is sufficient reason for loving Him and for longing for His Sight. No other reason is necessary for the Longing to see Him on the Day of Judgment.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 9 in “ظاہر کی آنکھ سے نہ تماشا کرے کوئی” (Zahir ki aankh se na tamasha kare koi) 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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