نگاہ شوق

اسی نگاہ میں ہے قاہری و جباریاسی نگاہ میں ہے دلبری و رعنائی

English translation

The glance has might to cause defeat, it has the strength, its foes to beat; we see through glance great charm and grace; it brings the lovers face to face.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 6 in “⁨نگاہ شوق⁩” (Eager Glance) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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