تصویر درد

شراب روح پرور ہے محبت نوع انساں کیسکھایا اس نے مجھ کو مست بے جام و سبو رہنا

English translation

Soul-invigorating wine is the Love of the human race; it has taught me to remain ecstatic without the wine cup and the pitcher.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 60 of 69 in “⁨تصویر درد⁩” (Picture of Pain) 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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