تصویر درد
نہیں منت کش تاب شنیدن داستاں میریخموشی گفتگو ہے بے زبانی ہے زباں میری
English translation
My story is not indebted to the patience of being heard. My silence is my talk, my speechlessness is my speech.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
منت کش تاب شنيدن: سننے کی طاقت کا احسان اٹھانے والی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 69 in “تصویر درد” (Picture of Pain) 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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