خیال او درون دیدہ خوشتر
خیال او درون دیدہ خوشترغمش افزودہ جان کاہیدہ خوشترمرا صاحبدلی این نکتہ آموختز منزل جادۂ پیچیدہ خوشتر
English translation
Sweet is His image in my sight to stay, sweeter His love, my life to steal away:
It was a subtle teacher taught me this – sweeter than lodging is the winding way.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “خیال او درون دیدہ خوشتر” in the section The Tulip of Sinai, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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