خلوت
خلوت میں خودی ہوتی ہے خودگیر، و لیکنخلوت نہیں اب دیر و حرم میں بھی میسر
English translation
Retreat is blessed state 'bout Self gives knowledge-great Alas! This state divine, isn't found in fane or shrine.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “خلوت” (Solitude) in the section Woman, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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