عرض حال مصنف بحضور رحمة للعالمین
عقل آزر پیشہ ام زنار بستنقش او در کشور جانم نشست
English translation
My reason diabolical resolved to wear the Magian girdle; its impress stamped o’er my spirit’s furrows.
Urdu translation
میری عقل آزر پیشہ نے زنّار باندھا ؛ اور میری جان کی ولایت میں اس کا نقش بیٹھ گیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 48 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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