تازہ پھر دانش حاضر نے کیا سحر قدیم
عیش منزل ہے غریبان محبت پہ حرامسب مسافر ہیں، بظاہر نظر آتے ہیں مقیم
English translation
Forbid the rest of lodge and bed to those who road of Love do tread: Like travelers they always roam, though they seem to stay at home.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “تازہ پھر دانش حاضر نے کیا سحر قدیم” (Taaza phir danish-e-haazir ne kiya sehar-e-qadeem) 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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