The gateway to God is intoxicated, neither eastern nor western; my home is neither Delhi, nor Safahan, nor Samarkand.
This profound couplet speaks to the ultimate transcendence of the self. Allama Iqbal suggests that true spiritual intoxication, or divine connection, cannot be confined by geographical lines. The dervish of God belongs nowhere specific—neither East nor West. Similarly, the poet declares that his true home is not any earthly city like Delhi or Samarkand. It is a spiritual state of being, a universal truth that transcends all borders and material attachments.
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