تصویر درد
یہ دستور زباں بندی ہے کیسا تیری محفل میںیہاں تو بات کرنے کو ترستی ہے زباں میری
English translation
Why does this custom of silencing exist in your assembly? My tongue is tantalized to talk in this assembly.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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