To love’an rapture* sins gave a common sense, and made ripes’** wisdom a raws logic hence. I sing songs hey! To Makkan tunes gay, since wine in cup was poured on the first day. * Some people tauntingly say that the mystic’s Ishq and Masti (Love and raptures) is a sin a; they flee from responsibilities of life, which are also a must for every body. **Ripes: Philosophers. The 4th line of this quatrain has been taken by Iqbal from Iraqi, whose full name is Fakhr-ud-Din Ibrahim Iraqi. He died at Damascus in 688 Hijra, where he had finally settled. He also visited Multan with a hand of Qalandars (ascetics) and accepted the initiation of Khawaja Baha-ud-Din Zakriya.

You ask the spots where I played my jazz there; my friends know little I came up from where. I opened my baggage in desert’s heat, where I am singing in his lone retreat.