در معنی اینکہ افلاطون
از نشیمن سوی گردون پر گشودباز سوی آشیان نامد فرود
English translation
He spread his wings towards the sky and never came down to his nest again.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
اس نے اپنے نشیمن سے آسمان کی طرف پرواز کی لیکن پھر اپنے نشیمن (دنیائے عمل) کی طرف نہ آیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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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