ذوق و شوق

کس سے کہوں کہ زہر ہے میرے لیے م ے حیاتکہنہ ہے بزم کائنات، تازہ ہیں میرے واردات

English translation

To whom should I say that the wine of life is poison to me: I have new experiences while the universe is decadent entire.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 8 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

۸ / ۳۱