انسان اور بزم قدرت
آہ! اے راز عیاں کے نہ سمجھے والےحلقہ، دام تمنا میں الجھنے والے
English translation
Ah! The one who does not understand the open secret! The one prone to be entangled in the desires' net.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
دام تمنا: خواہشات کا جال۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 18 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.
Read it in the poem۱۸ / ۲۰