Kya ka jab hi gaya ho
“I have grown weary of the world's gatherings — what pleasure is there in company when the heart itself has gone dark?”
क्या का जब ही बुझ गया हो
The couplet in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
کیا لطف انجمن کا جب دل ہی بجھ گیا ہو
The couplet as Iqbal wrote it, in Urdu (Nastaliq).
Iqbal names a quiet kind of exhaustion: the crowd is present, the noise is plentiful, and none of it reaches him. The couplet locates joy not in the room but in the heart that meets the room. When the inner flame is out, no amount of external company can relight it; the problem is never the gathering, it is the dimmed self.
When socialising leaves you flat, the fix is rarely a better party. Tend the heart first; restore your own sense of aliveness, and the same rooms become bearable again.
Abhi ishq ke imtihan aur bhi hain
Tu agar mera nahin banta na ban, apna to ban
Nek jo raah ho us rah pe chalana mujh ko