لم یلد ولم یولد

مستی او تا بخون ما دویدکہنہ را آتش زد و نو آفرید

English translation

From what time this glad intoxication with his love. Raced in our blood, the old is set ablaze in new creation.

Urdu translation

جب آپ (صلعم) کی محبت کی سرمستی ہمارے خون میں رچ گئی تو فرسودہ (افکار ) جل گئے اور نئے پیدا ہوئے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 19 of 25 in “⁨لم یلد ولم یولد⁩” (‘He Begat Not, Neither Was He Begotton’) in the section Summary of the Purport of the Poem, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (⁨رموزِ بیخودی⁩), published in 1918.

Read it in the poem

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