عرض حال مصنف بحضور رحمة للعالمین
این شراب از شیشۂ جانم نریختاین زر سارا ز دامانم نریخت
English translation
Yet this draught was spilled not from the goblet of my soul, this gold refined not scattered from my skirt.
Urdu translation
مگر اس تمنا کی شراب میری جان کے جام سے نہ نکل سکی ؛ یہ زر خالص میرے دامن میں محفوظ رہا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 47 of 65 in “عرض حال مصنف بحضور رحمة للعالمین” (The Author’s Memorial To Him Who Is A Mercy To All Living Beings) 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.
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