صدائے درد

لذت قرب حقیقی پر مٹا جاتا ہوں میںاختلاط موجہ و ساحل سے گھبراتا ہوں میں

English translation

Though I exceedingly love the real closeness; I am upset by the mixing of waves and the shore.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

اختلاط: میل جول۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 9 in “⁨صدائے درد⁩” (The Cry of Pain) 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

۵ / ۹