رخصت اے بزم جہاں

شام کو آواز چشموں کی سلاتی ہے مجھےصبح فرش سبز سے کوئل جگاتی ہے مجھے

English translation

The sound of the spring's music lulls me to sleep. The morning cuckoo from the green carpet wakes me up.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 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.

Read it in the poem

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