عا شق ہر جائی
بے نیازی سے ہے پیدا میری فطرت کا نیازسوز و ساز جستجو مثل صبا رکھتا ہوں میں
English translation
Beniazi has created my nature’s Niaz; I keep the struggle for the Longing like the zephyr.
(Beniazi (freedom from need, which is an attribute of God) has created the opposite nature of ‘niaz’ (or being in need) in me. This needfulness has created the longing for the Sight of God, which is my strongest need and for which I am wandering around like zephyr. This thought extends to the next two verses.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 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 poem۱۶ / ۲۵