محبت

پھرایا فکر اجزا نے اسے میدان امکاں میںچھپے گی کیا کوئی شے بارگاہ حق کے محرم سے

English translation

He was roaming in the world in search of components; nothing could be concealed from the knower of God’s Audience.*
* Allusion to the Man’s potential for knowing all secrets in the universe, if he tries ardently and in the right way, which includes the Love of God and constant sincere struggle in His cause.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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.

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