پر ندے کی فر یاد

جب سے چمن چھٹا ہے، یہ حال ہو گیا ہےدل غم کو کھا رہا ہے، غم دل کو کھا رہا ہے

English translation

Since separation from the garden the condition of my heart is such; my heart is waxing the grief, my grief is waxing the heart.*
* This expression in Urdu denotes extreme anguish.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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.

Read it in the poem

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