تصویر درد
دوا ہر دکھ کی ہے مجروح تیغ آرزو رہناعلاج زخم ہے آزاد احسان رفو رہنا
English translation
Every malady's cure is to remain wounded with Longing's sword. Wound's remedy is to remain free from obligation to stitching.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
آزاد احسان رفو: زخم سلوانے کا احسان نہ لینا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 53 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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