عشق اور موت

عطا درد ہوتا تھا شاعر کے دل کوخودی تشنہ کام مے بے خودی تھی

English translation

They were conferring pathos on the poet's heart; Khudi for the wine of Bükhudi was pining.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

تشنہ کام: پیاسی۔مے بے خودی: بے خودی کی شراب۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 23 in “⁨عشق اور موت⁩” (Love And Death) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۶ / ۲۳