عا شق ہر جائی

عشق کی آشفتگی نے کر دیا صحرا جسےمشت خاک ایسی نہاں زیر قبا رکھتا ہوں میں

English translation

What the disturbance of love has turned into wilderness; I keep that handful of dust concealed under the cloak.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

آشفتگي: پریشانی۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 11 of 25 in “⁨عا شق ہر جائی⁩” (The Unfaithful Lover) 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

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