ذوق و شوق
تیری نظر میں ہیں تمام میرے گزشتہ روز و شبمجھ کو خبر نہ تھی کہ ہے علم نخیل بے رطب
English translation
Thou knowest all about my past and my present; I had not known that knowledge is a tree without fruit.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 26 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.
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