درد عشق
ہاں خود نمائیوں کی تجھے جستجو نہ ہومنت پذیر نالہء بلبل کا تو نہ ہو!
English translation
Beware! You should not be striving for ostentation! You should not be obligated to the nightingale's lament!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
پذير منت: احسان مند۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 13 in “درد عشق” (Pathos Of Love) 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 poem۴ / ۱۳