سوال چہارم

فراق او چنان صاحب نظر کردکہ شام خویش را بر خود سحر کرد

English translation

This separation developed in him such a spiritual insight, that he turned his dusk into a dawn.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

فراق نے اسے اتنا صاحب نظر کر دیا کہ اس نے اپنے (فراق ‍ کی) رات کو اپنے لیے سحر بنا لیا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 21 of 31 in “⁨سوال چہارم⁩” (Question 4) 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

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