سوامی رام تیرتھ

نفی ہستی اک کرشمہ ہے دل آگاہ کا'لا' کے دریا میں نہاں موتی ہے 'الااللہ' کا

English translation

The denial of Existence is the Love’s gesture of the informed heart; in the river of La is concealed the pearl of Illallah.
(This alludes to the Kalimah-i-Tawhid. The first part of theKalimah, ‘La’ is the negation and denial of everything except God and is the prelude to the second partIllallah which is what the Kalimah accepts and testifies.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 6 in “⁨سوامی رام تیرتھ⁩” (Swamy Ram Tirath) 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 poem

۴ / ۶