تصویر درد
کیا رفعت کی لذت سے نہ دل کو آشنا تو نےگزاری عمر پستی میں مثال نقش پا تو نے
English translation
You have not acquainted your heart with pleasure of dignity. You have passed your entire life in humility like foot-prints.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
مثال نقش پا: پاؤں کے نشان کی طرح یعنی پست۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 36 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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