جنوں
زجاج گر کی دکاں شاعری و ملائیستم ہے، خوار پھرے دشت و در میں دیوانہ!
English translation
Poets and priestly class denote and show the shops of those who blow the glass, what pity! The mad frequents the wilds and lanes, to smash these shops, this way he does not pass.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
زجاج گر: شیشہ بنانے والے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “جنوں” (Madness) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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