تصویر درد
نہ اٹھا جذبہء خورشید سے اک بر گ گل تک بھییہ رفعت کی تمنا ہے کہ لے اڑتی ہے شبنم کو
English translation
Not even a single rose-petal could rise by sun's attraction. It is the longing for elegance which raises the dew.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 50 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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