ہمدردی
کہتا تھا کہ رات سر پہ آئیاڑنے چگنے میں دن گزارا
English translation
‘The night has drawn near’, he was thinking; ‘I passed the day in flying around and feeding.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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.
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