ہمدردی
ٹہنی پہ کسی شجر کی تنہابلبل تھا کوئی اداس بیٹھا
English translation
Perched on the branch of a tree was a nightingale sad and lonely.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 8 in “ہمدردی” (Sympathy) 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 poem۱ / ۸