عا شق ہر جائی
جستجو کل کی لیے پھرتی ہے اجزا میں مجھےحسن بے پایاں ہے، درد لادوا رکھتا ہوں میں
English translation
The search for the Whole misguides me into its parts. The Beauty is boundless, I have the incurable pathos.
(According to the theory of ‘Wahdat al Shuhood’ God is the Whole or Real Being and has a real Existence while the material objects of the universe are merely the reflections of this Being. In my search for God I am temporarily misguided to the objects of the material world. However, my objective is always kept in view which guides me back to the right path.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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.
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