دل

تو سمجھتا نہیں اے زاہد ناداں اس کورشک صد سجدہ ہے اک لغزش مستانہء دل

English translation

You do not comprehend this, O simple hearted ascetic! Envy of a thousand prostrations is one slip of the Heart.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 of 9 in “⁨دل⁩” (Heart) 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

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