گل رنگیں
زیب محفل ہے، شریک شورش محفل نہیںیہ فراغت بزم ہستی میں مجھے حاصل نہیں
English translation
Though you adorn the assembly yet do not participate in its struggles; in life's assembly I am not endowed with this comfort.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
زیب محفل: محفل کی زینت۔فراغت: فرصت، مہلت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 12 in “گل رنگیں” (The Colorful Rose) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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