عشق
در دشت طلب بسی دویدمدامن چون گرد باد چیدم
English translation
I wandered widely in inquiry’s wilderness, collecting my skirts like the whirlwind’s flowing dress.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
میں ویرانہء طلب میں بہت دوڑا، مگر میں نے بگھولے کی طرح اپنا دامن سمیٹا (کچھ حاصل نہ کیا)۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 13 in “عشق” (Love) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۲ / ۱۳