مثال پرتو مے، طوف جام کرتے ہیں
غرض نشاط ہے شغل شراب سے جن کیحلال چیز کو گویا حرام کرتے ہیں
English translation
Those whose purpose is pleasure from wine; are changing the lawful into the unlawful.
(This verse refers to the two kinds of wine. One is the wine of the Love of God, which is not only lawful but essential for the fulfillment of the potentials of human life. The other one is the ordinary wine which people drink for pleasure, which is not only unlawful, but dulls those potentials.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 10 in “مثال پرتو مے، طوف جام کرتے ہیں” (Misaal-e-partav-e-may, toof-e-jaam karte hain) in the section The Ghazals 2, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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