عشق

چون برق بہ خرمنم گذر کرداز لذت سوختن خبر کرد

English translation

And striking lightning fashion my self’s granary, it taught my heart the joy of burning silently.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Urdu translation

وہ میرے خرمن پر بجلی کی طرح کوند گیا؛ اس نے مجھے جلنے کی لذت سے آشنا کیا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 8 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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