اقبال - نہ پنداری کہ من بے بادہ مستم

نہ  پنداری  کہ  من   بے بادہ  مستم

مثال     شاعراں     افسانہ      بستم

نہ  بینی خیز  ازاں  مرد   فرو دست

کہ  بر من  تہمت  شعر و سخن بست

او  حدیث    دلبری   خواہد    ز   من

رنگ و آب  شاعری  خواہد   ز   من

کم    نظر    بے  تابئ     جانم    ندید

آشکارم      دید      و    پنہانم     ندید

نغمہ کجا و من کجا، ساز سخن بہانہ ایست

سوئے  قطار  می  کشم  ناقۂ  بے زمام  را

Don't you think that I feel intoxicated without drinking wine and that I have fabricated a story like poet۔ You can never expect any good from that inferior man who caluminates me as a mere versifier. He wants me to speak sweet words of love and expects the style and radiance of poetry from me

The short-sighted fellow did not see the restlessness of my soul; he simply saw my outwardness and not my inwardness. There is a vast difference between me and the melody; the instrument of poetry is only a pretext. I do lead the bride-less dromedary to the string of camels. He hates, and dissociates himself from, all philosophy that is the outcome of a distorted and incomplete vision or intuition of Reality on the ground that it is divorced from the love of God.