تمہید

دلش از مدعا بیگانہ گردیدنے او از نوا بیگانہ گردید

English translation

Its heart lost desire and craving, its flute ceased to produce notes.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

اس کا دل مقصود نا آشنا (سامنے کوئی مقصد نہیں ) اور اس کی بانسری بے نوا ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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.

Read it in the poem

۳ / ۳۱