رومی

گسستہ تار ہے تیری خودی کا ساز اب تککہ تو ہے نغمہ رومی سے بے نیاز اب تک!

English translation

For songs of Rumi you haven't ears sharp, shaped the strings of your Self's harp.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

گسستہ تار: ٹوٹا ہوا تار۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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.

Read it in the poem

۳ / ۳