عا شق ہر جائی

زندگی الفت کی درد انجامیوں سے ہے مریعشق کو آزاد دستور وفا رکھتا ہوں میں

English translation

My life depends upon Love's extreme compassion, but I keep the Love free of customs of fidelity.
(For the reasons mentioned in note above, though I appreciate and love the material objects of the universe I keep that love free of the custom of fidelity. This guides me away from them and towards the object of my real Love, i.e. God.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

درد انجاميوں: وہ کیفیت جس کی انتہا درد ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 20 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

۲۰ / ۲۵