گل رنگیں
توڑ لینا شاخ سے تجھ کو مرا آئیں نہیںیہ نظر غیر از نگاہ چشم صورت بیں نہیں
English translation
To pluck you from the branch is not my custom; this sight is not different from the sight of the eye which can only see the appearances.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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