لم یلد ولم یولد
عشق ورزی از نسب باید گذشتہم ز ایران و عرب باید گذشت
English translation
And common ancestry is Love’s firm cord. True loverhood must overleap the bounds of lineage, transcend Arabia and Persia.
Urdu translation
اگر تو نے عشق اختیار کیا ہے تو نسب کو ترک کر ؛ ایران و عرب وغیرہ ممالک سے تعلق چھوڑ دے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 22 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 poem۲۲ / ۲۵