تصویر درد

مگر غنچوں کی صورت ہوں دل درد آشنا پیداچمن میں مشت خاک اپنی پریشاں کر کے چھوڑں گا

English translation

So that love-cognizant hearts be created like rose-buds; I will surely scatter around my handful of dust in the garden.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 31 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

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