عشق

واصل بہ کنار کشتیم شدطوفان جمال زشتیم شد

English translation

My being’s storm-tossed ship at long last came to port, and into beauty’s channel all my ugliness was poured.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Urdu translation

تب میری کشتی ساحل پر جا لگی، میں نے منزل مقصود کو پا لیا؛ اور میری بدصورتی طوفان جمال میں بدل گئی۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 11 of 13 in “⁨عشق⁩” (Love) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (⁨پیامِ مشرق⁩), published in 1923.

Read it in the poem

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