تصویر درد
ہوس بالائے منبر ہے تجھے رنگیں بیانی کینصیحت بھی تری صورت ہے اک افسانہ خوانی کی
English translation
You are greedy of flowery style even at the pulpit. Your advice also is a form of story telling.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 45 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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