دعا
من مثال لالہ ی صحراستمدرمیان محفلی تنہاستم
English translation
I am as the tulip of the field; in the midst of a company I am alone.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
مگر میں لالہء صحرا کی مانند محفل کے اندر بھی تنہا ہوں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 42 of 46 in “دعا” (Invocation), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرارِ خودی), published in 1915.
Read it in the poem۴۲ / ۴۶