عا شق ہر جائی
جانب منزل رواں بے نقش پا مانند موجاور پھر افتادہ مثل ساحل دریا بھی ہے
English translation
Like waves you are running to the destination without foot-prints; and then you are also left behind like the sea-shore.
(This means that though you claim to pursue the path of the Love of God, which ultimately leads to Fana Fi-Allah you are also involved in the love of material objects of the universe, including human beings. Is this not anomalous?)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
مانند موج: لہر کی طرح۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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