سید کی لوح تربت
اے کہ تیرا مرغ جاں تار نفس میں ہے اسیراے کہ تیری روح کا طائر قفس میں ہے اسیر
English translation
O you whose life is confined in the material world. O you whose soul is imprisoned in the cage.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 14 in “سید کی لوح تربت” (The Tomb-Stone Of Saiyyid) 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 poem۱ / ۱۴