تصویر درد

ہویدا آج اپنے زخم پنہاں کر کے چھوڑوں گالہو رو رو کے محفل کو گلستاں کر کے چھوڑوں گا

English translation

I will surely exhibit all my hidden wounds today; I will surely change assembly to a garden with blood-mixed tears.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

ہويدا: ظاہر۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 29 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 poem

۲۹ / ۶۹