تصویر درد
جو ہے پردوں میں پنہاں، چشم بینا دیکھ لیتی ہےزمانے کی طبیعت کا تقاضا دیکھ لیتی ہے
English translation
The discerning eye sees every thing covered in veils; it does see the exigencies of the nature of times.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 35 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 poem۳۵ / ۶۹