ارمغانِ حجازحضور رسالت
گناہ عشق و مستی عام کردند
(1)
گناہ عشق و مستی عام کردنددلیل پختگان را خام کردندبہ آہنگ حجازی می سرایمنخستین بادہ کاندر جام کردند
To love’an rapture* sins gave a common sense, and made ripes’** wisdom a raws logic hence.
I sing songs hey! To Makkan tunes gay, since wine in cup was poured on the first day.
* Some people tauntingly say that the mystic’s Ishq and Masti (Love and raptures) is a sin a; they flee from responsibilities of life, which are also a must for every body.
**Ripes: Philosophers.
The 4th line of this quatrain has been taken by Iqbal from Iraqi, whose full name is Fakhr-ud-Din Ibrahim Iraqi. He died at Damascus in 688 Hijra, where he had finally settled. He also visited Multan with a hand of Qalandars (ascetics) and accepted the initiation of Khawaja Baha-ud-Din Zakriya.
(2)
چہ پرسی از مقاما ت نوایمندیمان کم شنا سند از کجا یمکشادم رخت خود را اندرین دشتکہ اندرخلوتش تنہا سرا یم
You ask the spots where I played my jazz there; my friends know little I came up from where.
I opened my baggage in desert’s heat, where I am singing in his lone retreat.
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