در معنی اینکہ افلاطون
گوسفندی در لباس آدم استحکم او بر جان صوفی محکم است
English translation
He is a sheep in man's clothing, the soul of the Sufi bows to his authority.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
وہ انسان کے لباس میں ایک گوسفند ہے؛ مگر وہ صوفی کے تخیّل پر مسلط ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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