تمہید
مرا ذوق خودی چون انگبین استچہ گویم واردات من ہمین است
English translation
To me the ideal of khudi is sweet as honey. What else can I do? My whole stock consists of this experience.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
خودی کا ذوق میرے لیے شہد ہے، کیا کروں یہی میری کیفیت ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 of 31 in “تمہید” (Preface) in the section New Garden of Mysteries, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
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