ابر کوہسار
دور سے دیدہ امید کو ترساتا ہوںکسی بستی سے جو خاموش گزر جاتا ہوں
English translation
I tantalize the expecting eye from a distance as I pass silently over some habitation.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 12 in “ابر کوہسار” (The Cloud On The Mountain) 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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