تصویر درد

سراپا نالہ بیداد سوز زندگی ہو جاسپند آسا گرہ میں باندھ رکھی ہے صدا تو نے

English translation

Become embodiment of the wail of tyranny of life's pathos! You have concealed sound in your pocket like the rue seed.
(Rue: This is a perennial evergreen European shrub, (Ruta graveolens, Family Rutaceae). Its seeds when roasted crack and jump. The metaphor is used for a person who is restless in pursuing a just cause.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

سپند آسا: حرمل کے دانے کی طرح کا جڑی بوٹی کا ایک بیج۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 40 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

۴۰ / ۶۹