مجھے آہ و فغان نیم شب کا پھر پیام آیا

چل، اے میری غریبی کا تماشا دیکھنے والےوہ محفل اٹھ گئی جس دم تو مجھ تک دور جام آیا

English translation

O man, who at my misery scoff, follow the road you tread: When the cup to me was passed, the gathering all had fled.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 6 in “⁨مجھے آہ و فغان نیم شب کا پھر پیام آیا⁩” (Mujhe aah o fughan-e-neem shab ka phir payaam aaya) in the section Odes Part-II, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

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