کفر واسلام
تھا جواب صاحب سینا کہ مسلم ہے اگرچھوڑ کر غائب کو تو حاضر کا شیدائی نہ بن
English translation
The reply of Sinai’s Master was: ‘If you are a Muslim, leaving the Invisible do not become the lover of the visible.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 7 in “کفر واسلام” (Infidelity And Islam) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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