ذوق و شوق

میں کہ مری غزل میں ہے آتش رفتہ کا سراغمیری تمام سرگزشت کھوئے ہووں کی جستجو

English translation

My song seeks to recapture the flame that has been lost: To rediscover the great and noble souls of the past.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 16 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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