تمہید

گذشم از وصال جاودانیکہ بینم لذت آہ و فغانی

English translation

I am ready to forego eternal union, for now I realize what sweetness is in lamentation!

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

میں وصل مدام سے دستبردار ہوتا ہوں تاکہ لذت آہ و فغاں پاؤں۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 30 of 31 in “⁨تمہید⁩” (Preface) in the section New Garden of Mysteries, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

۳۰ / ۳۱