XI-XXXIV

Drive not from door who are longing for thee,
We are getting restive from thy flame’s glee.¹
So bid what ye wish, for patience ask, not,
Two hundred miles from it, the heart has brought.

1.         The literal version of line 2 is given below

“We can’t calm the pathos you gave with glee.”

Iqbal has taken the idea from a couplet of Sheikh Saa’di and formed his own ellipsis on it. Saadi’s verse is given below

The lover is restive but a stone is heart,
The love and the patience are poles apart.
The wealth cant stay in Sufi’s palm,
Like water in sieve, in heart the calm.