نگاہ شوق
نگاہ شوق میسر نہیں اگر تجھ کوترا وجود ہے قلب و نظر کی رسوائی
English translation
If fervent glance and vision keen you have not met or ever seen; your being is a source of shame on heart and sight can bring a blame.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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.
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