ترے عشق کی انتہا چاہتا ہوں
یہ جنت مبارک رہے زاہدوں کوکہ میں آپ کا سامنا چاہتا ہوں
English translation
May the pious be happy with this Paradise; only to see your Countenance I desire.
(For a Mu’min the highest reward on the Day of Judgment is to be able to witness the Countenance of God: The Holy Qur’an 3:15; 56:1-41.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 6 in “ترے عشق کی انتہا چاہتا ہوں” (Tere ishq ki inteha chahta hoon) 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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