حرفی چند با امت عربیہ
عقل و دل را مستی از یک جام میاختلاط ذکر و فکر روم و ری
English translation
Reason and heart intoxicated with one cup of wine, a mixture of dhikr and fikr of Rum and Rayy.
(Rum stands for Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi who represents love and Rayy is the name of a city which is now situated in the suburbs of Tehran, the birthplace of Fakhruddin Razi, the great theologian, Qur’an-commentator and philosopher. He stands for reason here.)
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
ایک جام مے سے عقل و دل دونوں کو سرمست کر دینا، روم و رے کے ذکر و فکر کا اختلاط۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 39 in “حرفی چند با امت عربیہ” (A Few Words to the Arab Nation), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق), published in 1936.
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