تصوف
یہ ذکر نیم شبی، یہ مراقبے، یہ سرورتری خودی کے نگہباں نہیں تو کچھ بھی نہیں
English translation
Your reveries deep and rapture sweet, your worship at the midst of night, if fail to keep a watch on Self, are useless quite and have value slight.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
ذکر نيم شبي: آدھی رات کی عبادت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “تصوف” (Mysticism) 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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