ایک آرزو
پانی کو چھو رہی ہو جھک جھک کے گل کی ٹہنیجیسے حسین کوئی آئینہ دیکھتا ہو
English translation
Again and again the flowered boughs touching the water be; as if some beauty looking at itself in mirror be.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 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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