مرزا غالب
شاہد مضموں تصدق ہے ترے انداز پرخندہ زن ہے غنچہ دلی گل شیراز پر
English translation
Beloved of literature itself loves your style: Delhi's bud is mocking at the rose of Shiraz.
(This is an allusion to Muhammad Shams al-Din Hafiz, who was an eminent Persian poet of Iran and lived in Shiraz.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 of 15 in “مرزا غالب” (Mirza Ghalib) 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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