تو ہم آن می بگیر از ساغر دوست

بیا باھم در آویزیم و رقصیمز گیتی دل بر انگیزیم و رقصیمیکی اندر حریم کوچہء دوستز چشمان اشک خون ریزیم و رقصیم

English translation

Let us join hands to dance in his flame; leave the world whole and dance for his name.
For a short while in the sweet beau’s lane; we dance* till the tears make the blood’s rain.

* It is a well known term used by all the past mystics and as well as by Iqbal. In mystic’s esoterics or arcane signs it means ‘frenzy’ in their beloved Prophet’s love. As such ‘raqs-i-tan’ (dance of booy) means dedication of one’s body for the cause of the Prophet and Allah). Raqs-i.-jan’ means dance of soul.

Translated by Q.A. Kabir

Urdu translation

آ، ہم باہم مل کر رقص کریں ؛ دنیا سے دل اٹھا لیں اور رقص کریں۔کوئے محبوب (صلعم) کے حریم میں ؛ آنکھوں سے خون کے آنسو بہائیں اور رقص کریں۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 7 in “⁨تو ہم آن می بگیر از ساغر دوست⁩”, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (⁨ارمغانِ حجاز⁩), published in 1938.

Read it in the poem

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