در معنی اینکہ افلاطون
بر تخیلہای ما فرمان رواستجام او خواب آور و گیتی رباست
English translation
He dominates our thinking; his cup sends us to sleep and takes the sensible world away from us.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
(افلاطون) ہمارے افکار پر حکمران ہے؛ حالانکہ اس کا جام خواب آور ہے اور نفیء دنیا کی دعوت دیتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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