دوزخی کی مناجات
تیشے کی کوئی گردش تقدیر تو دیکھےسیراب ہے پرویز، جگر تشنہ ہے فرہاد
English translation
Let some one ponder the fate of axe yet, Pervez well watered, the beau thirsty yet.
[Pervez: King of Persia (known in amatory legend of Shirin and Farhad on whose behest Farhad dug the canal with his axe. Thus the beau is Farhad, who could not yet win the hand of his lady love.]
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
سيراب: پانی پینے والا۔جگر تشنہ: جگر سے پیاسا، انتہائی پیاسا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “دوزخی کی مناجات” (The Hymns Of Hell Dweller) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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