ادبیات

عشق اب پیروی عقل خدا داد کرےآبرو کوچہ جاناں میں نہ برباد کرےکہنہ پیکر میں نئی روح کو آباد کرےیا کہن روح کو تقلید سے آزاد کرے

English translation

Now Love from mind must take the lead, by God bestowed on human race to dear one's lane it must not go and bring with haste on head disgrace.
Love must infuse new soul in old poetic moulds and change their course, or break the chains of antique soul, set it free from mimetic force.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 1 in “⁨ادبیات⁩” (Literature) 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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