جان و تن
میری مشکل، مستی و شور و سرور و درد و داغتیری مشکل، مے سے ہے ساغر کہ مے ساغر سے ہے
English translation
Pain, anguish, glee and rapture sweet are spiritual states that man must face; what is of much worth, cup or wine, is knotty point you wish to trace?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “جان و تن” (Soul And Body) 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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