ز ہد اور رندی
پابندی احکام شریعت میں ہے کیسا؟گو شعر میں ہے رشک کلیم ہمدانی
English translation
How is he in the obedience to the rules of Shari‘ah? Though in poetry he is envy of the Kalim of Hamadan.*
* Abu Talib Kalim Hamadani Kashani: A well known Persian poet of India and Persia. He belonged to Kashan by descent and to Hamadan by birth. He was educated and brought up in both cities and then arrived in the Indian sub-continent during the reign of Noor al-Din Jahangir… He went to Kashmir with Shahjahan, where he died and was buried.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
کليم ہمداني: ہمایوں اور جہانگیر کے دور کا ایران کے شہر ہمدان میں پیدا ہونے والا نامور شاعر جو کشمیر میں فوت ہوا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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