رومی
غلط نگر ہے تری چشم نیم باز اب تکترا وجود ترے واسطے ہے راز اب تک
English translation
Your half-shut eyes still fail to see what subtle fact this life may be.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
چشم نيم باز: آدھی کھلی آنکھ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “رومی” (Rumi) 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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