خاقانی
خاموش ہے عالم معانیکہتا نہیں حرف 'لن ترانی
English translation
With world or meanings he is free they dare not say ‘you can not see’.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
لن تراني: میں دیکھ نہیں سکتا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 6 in “خاقانی” (Khaqani) 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 poem۳ / ۶