گل رنگیں

کام مجھ کو دیدئہ حکمت کے الجھیڑوں سے کیادیدئہ بلبل سے میں کرتا ہوں نظارہ ترا

English translation

I am not concerned with intricacies of the philosophic eye, like a lover I see you through the nightingale's eye.
(Bulbul, or Nightingale: This is a special Persian bird found in gardens and proverbially engaged in melodious music round flowers. It is imagined to be and is described as an ardent lover of flowers in Persian and Urdu literature, especially poetry.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

دیدئہ حکمت: تدبیر والی آنکھ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 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.

Read it in the poem

۶ / ۱۲