تمہید

از نے آن نے نواز پاکزادباز شوری در نھاد من فتاد

English translation

That musician* of Pure breed has thrown my being into tumult once again with his music.
* Reference is to Rumi whose very first verse in the Mathnavi is: Listen to the reed when it relates its story, and complains of separation.)

Translated by Jamil Naqvi

Urdu translation

اس پاک سرشت نے نواز کے نغمہ نے میری طبیعت کے اندر دوبارہ ہنگامہ پیدا کر دیا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 34 in “⁨تمہید⁩” (Preamble), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (⁨پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

۴ / ۳۴