جہان کورست و از آئینہ دل غافل افتاد است
جہان کورست و از آئینۂ دل غافل افتاد استولی چشمی کہ بینا شد نگاہش بر دل افتاد است
English translation
The world had lost its sight and the glass of the heart forsook, but an eye now sees the light that into the heart can look.
Translated by A.J. Arberry
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 8 in “جہان کورست و از آئینہ دل غافل افتاد است” (jahan kur ast-o az aina-e dil ghafil uftada ast) in the section Part 2, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
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