تصویر درد
خزینہ ہوں، چھپایا مجھ کو مشت خاک صحرا نےکسی کیا خبر ہے میں کہاں ہوں کس کی دولت ہوں
English translation
I am a treasure, concealed in the wilderness dust; no one knows where I am, or whose wealth I am?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 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.
Read it in the poem۱۳ / ۶۹