ز ہد اور رندی
اک دن جو سر راہ ملے حضرت زاہدپھر چھڑ گئی باتوں میں وہی بات پرانی
English translation
One day as the respected ascetic met me in the street. The old story restarted during the talk in the street.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 of 27 in “ز ہد اور رندی” (Piety And Ecstasy) 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 poem۲۰ / ۲۷