تصویر درد
ٹپک اے شمع آنسو بن کے پروانے کی آنکھوں سےسراپا درد ہوں حسرت بھری ہے داستاں میری
English translation
O Candle! Drip like tears from the eye of the moth; head to foot pathos I am, full of longing is my story.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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