محبت
کمال نظم ہستی کی ابھی تھی ابتدا گویاہویدا تھی نگینے کی تمنا چشم خاتم سے
English translation
Perfection of the order of existence was just starting. The gem’s longing was apparent from the ring’s eye.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
چشم خاتم: انگوٹھی کی آنکھہویدا: ظاہر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 16 in “محبت” (Love) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۱۶