سوال چہارم

محبت دیدہ ور بی انجمن نیستمحبت خود نگر بی انجمن نیست

English translation

Love does not acquire insight without company, and without company, it does not become self-conscious.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

انجمن کے بغیر محبت صاحب نظر نہیں ہو سکتی، نہ انجمن کے بغیر محبت اپنے آپ کو دیکھ سکتی ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 13 of 31 in “⁨سوال چہارم⁩” (Question 4) 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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