وصال
قید میں آیا تو حاصل مجھ کو آزادی ہوئیدل کے لٹ جانے سے میرے گھر کی آبادی ہوئی
English translation
By becoming a prisoner I gained my freedom; by ruining the heart I got prosperity for my house.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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.
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