پیرو مرید
ہے زمانے کا تقاضا انجمناور بے خلوت نہیں سوز سخن!
English translation
The world demands me to meet and mingle, but the song is born in solitude.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 49 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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