طفل شیر خوار
میری آنکھوں کو لبھا لیتا ہے حسن ظاہریکم نہیں کچھ تیری نادانی سے نادانی مری
English translation
My eyes are attracted by apparent beauty. My ignorance is no less than your ignorance.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 12 in “طفل شیر خوار” (The Suckling Baby) 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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