وصال

خود تڑپتا تھا، چمن والوں کو تڑپاتا تھا میںتجھ کو جب رنگیں نوا پاتا تھا، شرماتا تھا میں

English translation

I used to flounce myself; I used to make others flounced. I used to feel shy when I found you singing beautifully.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 11 in “⁨وصال⁩” (The Union (Meeting The Beloved)) 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

۲ / ۱۱