انسان اور بزم قدرت
ہائے غفلت کہ تری آنکھ ہے پابند مجازناز زیبا تھا تجھے، تو ہے مگر گرم نیاز
English translation
Alas insensible! Confined to the material is your eye; Naz behooved you, but prone to Niyaz is your eye.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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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