ذوق و شوق

عقل و دل و نگاہ کا مرشد اولیں ہے عشقعشق نہ ہو تو شرع و دیں بت کدئہ تصورات

English translation

Love is the mentor of the eye, of the heart and reason; faith without Love is a pantheon of fantasies.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 of 31 in “⁨ذوق و شوق⁩” (Ecstasy) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

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