از ما بگو سلامی آن ترک تند خو را
گفتی مجو وصالم بالا تر از خیالمعذر نو آفریدی اشک بہانہ جو را
English translation
‘Do not seek union with Me, for I transcend all thought.’ By saying this You gave my tears a new excuse for flowing.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 7 in “از ما بگو سلامی آن ترک تند خو را” (Az ma begu salaami aan turk tand khoo ra) in the section The Wine Remaining, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۶ / ۷