علم و عشق
شرع محبت میں ہے عشرت منزل حرامشورش طوفاں حلال، لذت ساحل حرامعشق پہ بجلی حلال، عشق پہ حاصل حرامعلم ہے ابن الکتاب، عشق ہے ام الکتاب
English translation
The luxury of destination is forbidden in the religion of Love; fighting the storms is permitted, but the comfort of the shore is forbidden; lightning is permitted to Love, harvest is forbidden. Knowledge is the child of the Book, Love is the mother of the Book./Editors)
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “علم و عشق” (Knowledge and Love) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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