حکمت کلیمی

ابتدای عشق و مستی قاہری استانتہای عشق و مستی دلبری است

English translation

The beginning of love and ecstasy is majesty (qahiri); the end of love and ecstasy is beauty (dilbari).
(Dilbari, lit, art of heart-ravishing, heart-captivating, while qahiri, lit, is conquering power, might. These two terms like jamal and jalal, khalwat and jalwat form two complementary aspects of a higher synthesis.)

Translated by Jamil Naqvi

Urdu translation

عشق و مستی کی ابتدا قاہری (سختی) اور انتہا دلبری (محبوبی) ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 30 of 32 in “⁨حکمت کلیمی⁩” (The Wisdom Of Moses), 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

۳۰ / ۳۲