"O separation! Turn round and come to me, because union with the beloved has created a partition between us. The wounds of separation that I used to nurse (so devotedly), exist no more due to union with the beloved. (Hence the pleasure of nursing them is lost to me.)
Note: In a letter to Khawaja Hassan Nizami, Dr. lqbal wrote as under:
"Hazrat lmam Rabani had discussed in one of his 'maktubat' "Whether union is better than separation." In my opinion separation is consistant with Islam and union with monasticism. It has its origin in the Iranian 'tasawuf'. You remember when you had addressed me as a champion of union, I had requested you to call me as the champion of separation. Even at that time my views were the same as those of Mujadid AIif Sani".