رخصت اے بزم جہاں
گو بڑی لذت تری ہنگامہ آرائی میں ہےاجنبیت سی مگر تیری شناسائی میں ہے
English translation
Though much pleasure is in embellishing your assembly, but some kind of strangeness is in your acquaintance.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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