ز ہد اور رندی
اقبال بھی 'اقبال' سے آگاہ نہیں ہےکچھ اس میں تمسخر نہیں، واللہ نہیں ہے
English translation
Iqbal also is not acquainted with Iqbal; there is no joke in it, by God he is not.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 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.
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