جاوید سے

جس گھر کا مگر چراغ ہے توہے اس کا مذاق عارفانہ

English translation

The house, your presence illumes like a lamp, has mystic trend in veins and bears its stamp.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 33 in “⁨جاوید سے⁩” (To Javaid) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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