جب عشق سکھاتا ہے آداب خود آگاہی
جب عشق سکھاتا ہے آداب خود آگاہیکھلتے ہیں غلاموں پر اسرار شہنشاہی
English translation
When through the Love man conscious grows of respect self-awareness needs, though in chains, he learns at once the regal mode and kingly deeds.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “جب عشق سکھاتا ہے آداب خود آگاہی” (Jab ishq sikhaata hai aadaab-e-khud aagaahi) in the section Odes Part-II, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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