محاورۂ علم و عشق
ز روز آفرینش ھمدم استیمھمان یک نغمہ را زیر و بم استیم
English translation
We have been on intimate terms since the day of creation, and are the high and low notes of the same song.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
Urdu translation
ہم روز اوّل سے ساتھی ہیں؛ اور ایک ہی نغمے کے زیر و بم ہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “محاورۂ علم و عشق” (Discourse of Knowledge and Love) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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