تصویر درد

زمیں کیا آسماں بھی تیری کج بینی پہ روتا ہےغضب ہے سطر قرآں کو چلیپا کر دیا تو نے

English translation

Not only the earth even the sky is bewailing your imprudence. It is outrageous that you have twisted the Qur'an's lines!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

چليپا: سولی۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 42 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

۴۲ / ۶۹