رخصت اے بزم جہاں
رخصت اے بزم جہاں! سوئے وطن جاتا ہوں میںآہ! اس آباد ویرانے میں گھبراتا ہوں میں
English translation
(Adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Farewell O worldly companions! I am going to my homeland. I am feeling unhappy in this well populated wilderness.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 21 in “رخصت اے بزم جہاں” (Farewell O World's Congregation!) 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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