دل
حسن کا گنج گراں مایہ تجھے مل جاتاتو نے فرہاد! نہ کھودا کبھی ویرانہ دل!
English translation
You would have got the Beauty's bountiful treasure, O Farhad*! You never dug into the ruins of the Heart.
* Lover of Shirin in the Persian epic of love titled Khusro Wa Shirin by Hakim Abu Muhammad Ilyas Jamal al-Din).
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
گنج گراں: بے بہا خزانہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 9 in “دل” (Heart) 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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