تمہید
ترا گناہ ہے اقبال! مجلس آرائیاگرچہ تو ہے مثال زمانہ کم پیوند
English translation
Iqbal, you sin because the throngs you tingle though keep aloof and seldom with them mingle.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 9 in “تمہید” (The Prologue) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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