فقر و راہبی
اسی سے پوچھ کہ پیش نگاہ ہے جو کچھجہاں ہے یا کہ فقط رنگ و بو کی طغیانی
English translation
Ask it if things on which your eyes are bent, are real or merely riot of hue and scent.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “فقر و راہبی” (Faqr And Monkery) 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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