سوال ہشتم
چو او بیدار گردد دیگری نیستمتاع شوق را سوداگری نیست
English translation
When He wakes up, nothing else remains; there is no customer for the merchandise of yearning.’
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
جب وہ بیدار ہو تو کوئی اور باقی نہیں، متاع شوق کا کوئی خریدار نہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 of 28 in “سوال ہشتم” (Question 8) 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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