جہان کورست و از آئینہ دل غافل افتاد است
رقیب خام سودا مست و عاشق مست و قاصد مستکہ حرف دلبران دارای چندین محمل افتاد است
English translation
Raqib-e-khaam souda must-o-ashiq must-o-qasid must; Drunk are the feckless spy, the lover, the messenger; so the words of the sweethearts lie in how many loads to wear.
Translated by A.J. Arberry
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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