اگر بہ بحر محبت کرانہ میخواہی
جنون نداری و ہوئی فکندہ ئی در شہرسبو شکستی و بزم شبانہ می خواہی
English translation
With no madness in thy breast through the town thou clamourest; pitcher shattered from thy grip, Thou wouldst yet the revel keep.
Translated by A.J. Arberry
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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 poem۴ / ۵