محبت

سنا ہے عالم بالا میں کوئی کیمیاگر تھاصفا تھی جس کی خاک پا میں بڑھ کر ساغر جم سے

English translation

It is said that there was an alchemist in the spiritual world; the dust of whose feet was clearer than the Jam’s wine cup.
(Here the alchemist’s feet are described as cleaner that Jamshâd’s wine cup. The alchemist represents a Mu’min and this verse pays high tribute to Man’s potential, which develops fully on a person’s becoming a Mu’min.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

عالم بالا: اوپر کی دنیا جو ہماری مادی دنیا سے الگ ہے۔صفا: پاکیزگی۔ساغر جم: جمشید بادشاہ کا پیالہ ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 16 in “⁨محبت⁩” (Love) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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