موسیقی

معنی آن نبود کہ کور و کر کندمرد را بر نقش عاشق تر کند

English translation

The meaning is not that turns you blind and deaf; one that absorbs a person into mere (physical) form.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

معنی وہ نہیں جو تجھے اندھا و بہرا کر دے، جو مرد کو صورت پر ہی مفتوں کر دے۔'

About this couplet

This is couplet 27 of 28 in “⁨موسیقی⁩” (Music) in the section On The Fine Arts Of Slaves, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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