ذوق و شوق
تازہ مرے ضمیر میں معرکہء کہن ہواعشق تمام مصطفی، عقل تمام بولہب
English translation
That old battle was raged in my heart again, between love, which is all good, and reason, which is all evil.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 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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