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 poem۳۰ / ۳۲