تصویر درد

دکھا وہ حسن عالم سوز اپنی چشم پرنم کوجو تڑپاتا ہے پروانے کو، رلواتا ہے شبنم کو

English translation

Show that universally illuminating Beauty to your weeping eye, which renders the moth highly agitated, which makes the dew weep like eye.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 46 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

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