تصویر درد
فدا کرتا رہا دل کو حسنیوں کی ادائوں پرمگر دیکھی نہ اس آئینے میں اپنی ادا تو نے
English translation
You have continued loving the charm of material beauties, but you have never seen your own elegance in this mirror.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 38 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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