در معنی اینکہ افلاطون
ذوق روئیدن ندارد دانہ اشاز طپیدن بے خبر پروانہ اش
English translation
Its seed does not desire to grow. Its moths do not know how to flutter.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
اس کے دانے میں اگنے کا ذوق نہیں ؛ اس کا پروانہ تڑپ سے ناآشنا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 21 in “در معنی اینکہ افلاطون” (Plato, Whose Thought Has Deeply Influenced The Mysticism And Literature Of Islam, Followed The Sheep’s Doctrine), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرارِ خودی), published in 1915.
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