اہل دل از صحبت ما مضمحلگل ز فیض صحبتش دارای دل

English translation

The people of the heart* feel frustrated in our company, but the grace of his company puts a heart even into dust.
* Heart, dill: In Muslim literature, the word dill or qalb stands for the source of spiritual experience, ilham, inspiration. The idea was developed by Ghazali in Ihya’. It is based on the Qur’anic verse: ‘Then He made him (man) complete and breathed into him of His spirit, and gave you ears and hearts…(xxxii. 93).
Commenting on this verse, Iqbal says: ‘The ‘heart’ is a kind of inner intuition or insight which, in the beautiful words of Rumi, feeds on the rays of the sun and brings us into contact with aspects of Reality other than those open to sense-perception. It is, according to the Qur’an, something which sees,’ and its reports, if properly interpreted, are never false’ (Reconstruction…).
Distinguishing heart from sense and intellect, Iqbal says in Payam-i M’ashriq: ‘Love had not been, nor all love’s tumult, if heart possessed mind’s intelligence.’ ‘When reason developed burning, heart was born.’ Rumi speaks about the effect on a person’s personality, when he associates with men of heart: ‘Though you be marble or rock, you become a jewel when you reach the man of heart.’

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

ہماری صحبت سے اہل دل پراگندہ خاطر ہو جاتے ہیں؛ اس کی صحبت کے فیض سے مٹی بھی صاحب دل ہو جاتی ہے۔