عشق

سر مست شدم ز پا فتادمچون عکس ز خود جدا فتادم

English translation

All in a rapture I was carried off my feet; and I became a shadow, from myself discrete.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Urdu translation

میں سرمست ہو کر گر پڑا اور اپنے عکس کی مانند اپنے آپ سے جدا ہو گیا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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 poem

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