حور وشاعر

بہ نوای آفریدی چہ جہان دلگشائےکہ ارم بہ چشم آید چو طلسم سیمیائے

English translation

With your song you have made such a lovely world that paradise itself appears to me to be some conjurer’s trick.

Translated by Mustansir Mir

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 10 in “⁨حور وشاعر⁩” (The Houri And The Poet) 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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