پیرو مرید
چشم بینا سے ہے جاری جوئے خوںعلم حاضر سے ہے دیں زار و زبوں!
English translation
Discerning eyes bleed in pain, for faith is ruined by knowledge in this age.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
جوئے خوں: خون کا بہنا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 52 in “پیرو مرید” (The Mentor And The Disciple) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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