تصویر درد
صفائے دل کو کیا آرائش رنگ تعلق سےکف آئینہ پر باندھی ہے او ناداں حنا تو نے
English translation
Clarity of heart has nothing to do with external decorations O imprudent one! You have applied myrtle to mirror's palm.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 41 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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