عا شق ہر جائی
فیض ساقی شبنم آسا، ظرف دل دریا طلبتشنہء دائم ہوں آتش زیر پا رکھتا ہوں میں
English translation
By creating me He created His own critic; as a picture, I have complaint against my Painter.
(Allusion to the anomaly that though Man has been created by God he always criticizes his Creator.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
شبنم آسا: شبنم کی مانند۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 22 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 poem۲۲ / ۲۵