ایک آرزو
دنیا کی محفلوں سے اکتا گیا ہوں یا ربکیا لطف انجمن کا جب دل ہی بجھ گیا ہو
English translation
O Lord! I have become weary of human assemblages! When the heart is sad no pleasure in assemblages can be.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 20 in “ایک آرزو” (A Desire) 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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