माना कि तेरी दीद के क़ाबिल नहीं हूं मैं

Recently in the Lok Sabha, Dr. Manmohan Singh quoted this famous couplet from Allama Iqbal's Bang-e-dara (Call of the Caravan or Call of the Highway) which was first published in 1924. Imagine lines from that still being relevant almost a century later.

The ghazal in question is

gulzaar-e-hast-o-bood na begaanavaar dekh

hai dekhne kee cheez ise baar baar dekh

गुलज़ार ए हस्त ओ बूद न बेगानावार देख

है देखने की चीज़ इसे बार बार देख

aayaa hai tu jahaa.n me.n misaal-e-sharaar dekh

dum de na jaaye hasti-e-naapaayedaar dekh

आया है तू जहां में मिसाल ए शरार देख

दम दे न जाये हस्ती ए नापायेदार देख

maanaa ke terii deed ke qaabil nahee.n hoo.n mai.n 

tuu meraa shauq dekh, miraa intizaar dekh

माना कि तेरी दीद के क़ाबिल नहीं हूं मैं

तू मेरा शौक़ देख, मिरा इंतिज़ार देख 

kholii hai zauq-e-deed ne aankhe.n terii agar

har rahguzar me.n naqsh-e-kaf-e-paa-e-yaar dekh

खोली है ज़ौक़ ए दीद ने आंखें तेरी अगर

हर रहगुज़र में नक़्श ए कफ़ ए पा ए यार देख

don't see this existential  garden as a stranger

it's really worth seeing, so see it over and over again, 

The life that you have, is just like a spark

watch out, lest this evanescent existence dies on you

I concede the fact that I am not worthy of your gaze

But see my passion, and my patience, and give due credit to it

If the desire for sight, has opened your eyes

See the footprints of your beloved on every street