مستی کردار
شاعر کی نوا مردہ و افسردہ و بے ذوقافکار میں سرمست، نہ خوابیدہ نہ بیدار
English translation
The Poet's song of zeal; bereft is dead and struck with frost: To outward eyes he seems awake, though in thoughts completely lost.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “مستی کردار” (Fervour For Action) 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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