جنھیں میں ڈھونڈتا تھا آسمانوں میں زمینوں میں
اگر کچھ آشنا ہوتا مذاق جبہہ سائی سےتو سنگ آستاں کعبہ جا ملتا جبینوں میں
English translation
If it were somewhat familiar with taste of rubbing foreheads, the stone of Ka‘bah’s threshold would have joined the foreheads.
(The pleasure of earnest beseeching before God in prostration is so great that if the stone of the threshold of the Ka’bah was aware of that pleasure it would have preferred to be the forehead itself, and participate in such a prostration than be merely the stone towards which such prostrations are performed.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 18 in “جنھیں میں ڈھونڈتا تھا آسمانوں میں زمینوں میں” (Jinhain main dhoondhta tha aasmaanon mein zameenon mein) 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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