پر ندے کی فر یاد
وہ پیاری پیاری صورت، وہ کامنی سی مورتآباد جس کے دم سے تھا میرا آشیانا
English translation
That beautiful figure, that Kamini’s* form, which source of happiness in my nest did form.
* It is a small tropical flowering tree with beautiful slender shape and white fragrant flowers. It is commonly grown in the gardens of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh region.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 11 in “پر ندے کی فر یاد” (The Bird's Complaint) 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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