اگر بہ بحر محبت کرانہ میخواہی

یکے بہ دامن مردان آشنا آویزز یار اگر نگہ محرمانہ می خواہی

English translation

Seekest thou to win perchance the Beloved’s secret glance? First awhile be clutching then so the skirts of conscient men.

Translated by A.J. Arberry

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 5 in “⁨اگر بہ بحر محبت کرانہ میخواہی⁩” (agar ba bahr-e muhabbat karana mikhwahi) in the section Part 2, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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