انسان اور بزم قدرت
ہو نہ خورشید تو ویراں ہو گلستاں میرامنزل عیش کی جا نام ہو زنداں میرا
English translation
Without the sun my rose garden would be desolate; instead of happiness prison would be my name.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
زنداں: قید خانہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 of 20 in “انسان اور بزم قدرت” (Man And Nature's Assemblage) 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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