غزل

رکھتا ہے اب تک میخانہ شرقوہ مے کہ جس سے روشن ہو ادراک

English translation

The East has taverns still where you can find such, wine, which makes perception dull with grandeur gleam and shine.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

ادراک: عقل، سوجھ بوجھ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 7 in “⁨غزل⁩” (Ghazal) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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