تمہید

مرا ناز و نیاز آدمی دہبہ جان من گداز آدمی دہ

English translation

Give me the pride and submissiveness of man, give unto my heart burning and consuming of man.’

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

مجھے آدم کا ناز و نیاز عطا ہو، میری جان کو آدم کا سوز و گداز ملے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 31 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

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