کشادہ دست کرم جب وہ بے نیاز کرے

مری نگاہ میں وہ رند ہی نہیں ساقیجو ہوشیاری و مستی میں امتیاز کرے

English translation

In my view he is not a rind at all, O cup-bearer, who would distinguish between ecstasy and lack of it.*
(Rind: A person who has gone so far in the Love of God that he has become ecstatic and is not able to follow the requirements of the Shari‘h. *As long as a person is consciously aware of being or not being ecstatic he is not a rind. He becomes a rind only when he loses this consciousness also.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 9 in “⁨کشادہ دست کرم جب وہ بے نیاز کرے⁩” (Kushaada dast-e-karam jab woh be-niyaaz kare) in the section The Ghazals 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

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