در حقیقت شعر و اصلاح ادبیات اسلامیہ

اہل عالم را صلا بر خوان کندآتش خود را چو باد ارزان کند

English translation

He invites the whole world to his table; he lavishes his fire as though it were cheap as air.

Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson

Urdu translation

وہ دنیا والوں کو اپنے دسترخواں کی طرف دعوت دیتا ہے؛ اور اپنی آتش شوق کو ہوا کی طرح عام کرتا ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 23 of 70 in “⁨در حقیقت شعر و اصلاح ادبیات اسلامیہ⁩” (The True Nature Of Poetry And Reform Of Islamic Literature), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (⁨اسرارِ خودی⁩), published in 1915.

Read it in the poem

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