ذوق و شوق

جلوتیان مدرسہ کور نگاہ و مردہ ذوقخلوتیان مے کدہ کم طلب و تہی کدو

English translation

The disciples in tile schools are insipid and purblind; the esoteric few have an empty unseening soul.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 15 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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