رخصت اے بزم جہاں
لیٹنا زیر شجر رکھتا ہے جادو کا اثرشام کے تارے پہ جب پڑتی ہو رہ رہ کر نظر
English translation
How enchanting is the act of lying under the trees, as now and then my sight falls at the evening star.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 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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