ابوالعلامعری
کہتے ہیں کبھی گوشت نہ کھاتا تھا معریپھل پھول پہ کرتا تھا ہمیشہ گزر اوقات
English translation
It is said that Ma‘arri never ate meat; he lived on fruit and vegetables.
Translated by M. Munawwar Mirza
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “ابوالعلامعری” (Abu Al ‘Ala Al-Ma‘Arri) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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