سرود حرام
نہ میرے ذکر میں ہے صوفیوں کا سوز و سرورنہ میرا فکر ہے پیمانہ ثواب و عذاب
English translation
My remembrance lacks the warmth and zeal that mystics oft attain my thought is not a scale at all for deeds deserving need or pain.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “سرود حرام” (Unlawful Music) 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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