عا شق ہر جائی
سچ اگر پوچھے تو افلاس تخیل ہے وفادل میں ہر دم اک نیا محشر بپا رکھتا ہوں میں
English translation
The truth is that lack of imagination produces fidelity;* I have a new Resurrection Day ever fresh in my heart.
(People practice fidelity in their love for material objects, like human beings, because of their lack of power of imagination on account of which they do not realize that the material objects do not have a real existence and are merely reflections of the Divine Beauty.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
افلاس تخيل: خیال کی ناداری۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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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