تصویر درد
نرا نظارہ ہی اے بوالہوس مقصد نہیں اس کابنایا ہے کسی نے کچھ سمجھ کر چشم آدم کو
English translation
Mere seeing is not its purpose O greedy one! Some One has made the human eye with some purpose.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
بوالہوس: ہوس میں الجھا ہوا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 47 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 poem۴۷ / ۶۹